Is a Genocide of Muslims Underway in Modi's India?
The Thinking Muslim
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The Demonisation of the Mogul Empire
There is an attempt to revise, a revisionist attempt to revise Mogul history in the school textbooks. The root cause of this is that the entire demonisation of the Mogul rule is actually historically and intellectually indebted to British or Western Orientalism. When the British colonised India, they started constructing the Mogul's as malignant and bad force. But what the British also did was to say that look, we are not the first outsiders to rule India. So, we have two things happening here. Externalisation of Muslims that they are not from India, from outside, just as the British are. And then the demonisation because without this demonisation, you cannot tell Indian people how
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