Whenever we read about the Mughal period in history, leftist historians have glorified them in
such a way that if the Mughals had not come to this country, there would have been no
development of India’s civilization and culture.
Leftist historians consider the Mughal period as the golden age of Indian sculpture. Now only these historians know how much India they have visited because even today if we look at the carvings and grandeur of the temples built by us, then the Mughal architecture does not stand anywhere in front of them, and anyway most of the Mughal buildings are the history of some old Sanatani culture.
The described buildings and temples have been built by breaking them. These leftist historians have always avoided it.
He never wrote that the Mughals broke temples and massacred during their reign. But one chapter is still missing which is still not talked about, that is “Indian Education and Literature”. Even these leftist historians believe that most of the time of the Mughals and other Muslim rulers was spent fighting and suppressing the rebellions against the brutal and dictatorial rule in the country.
And the Mughals could never rule this country with a complete monopoly. When we look at the time period of these foreign invaders, Turks, Afghans, Pathans, Lodhi. Khilji and Mughals, we see zero in what improvements were made in “Indian education and literature” and what their contribution was.
One reason for this is also that all of them looted the wealth of this country and spread their barbarism and cruelty here. In the same order, they marked and broke the invaluable heritage of Indian education and literature, which included most of the temples because our mythological education system was run by temples and monasteries.
That’s why all the foreign invading rulers who came to this country tried to destroy the soul of Indian philosophy by destroying the temples along with looting the wealth here. These foreign invaders did not know the importance of education and literature, that’s why they never gave importance to education and remained uneducated themselves and those who even tried to understand Indian philosophy, their situation was made like Dara Shikoh.
Because Dara Shikoh was trying to understand Indian education literature and philosophy and he was also influenced by it. Mohammad bin Tughlaq also beheaded many Sufi writers just because he too was getting influenced by understanding Indian philosophy.
Indian historians have never given importance to the effect of the education system, literature, and philosophy in the world before these foreign invaders came to India. There were so many universities, in which foreign students and researchers used to come and try to understand Indian philosophy.
Nalanda University, established by the Gupta dynasty, was one of the greatest educational institutions in the world from the 4th to the 12th century, as well as the spread of Buddhism throughout the world. Students studying here included students from Greece, Greece, China, Persia, Indonesia, and many other countries, but at the end of the 12th century, the Ottoman invader Bakhtiyar Khilji looted this institution and set it on fire. Millions of books and mythological manuscripts were burnt, destroying the entire cultural and spiritual heritage of India.
Research shows that after the Buddhist period, its main center was India and it was from here that Buddhism spread throughout the world. But only after the invasion of Turks and Afghans in India, the decline of Buddhism start in India.
Takshashila (5th century BCE to 7th century CE), Vikramshila (8th century CE to 12th century
CE), Vallabhi (6th century CE to 12th century CE), Sompura (8th century CE to 12th century
CE), Jagadala (8th century BCE to 12th century CE) The center of Sanskrit learning till 12thcentury)
Odantapuri (from the 8th century to the 12th century), and Pushpagiri (from the 02nd century to the 12th century)
are some of the names where mathematics, science, economics, medicine, astronomy, Culture, and philosophy were studied. Which were established universities and educational institutions before these foreign invaders came to India, which used to be the main center of Indian culture, philosophy, and education. Many students not only from India but also from abroad used to study.
Apart from this, when all these foreign barbaric robbers were spending the looted property from here in this country to build their tombs and palaces and buildings used for their own splendor, then at the same time in other continents and countries like Europe, North America, Spain, Germany In places like Poland, Italy, Britain, the rulers there were establishing new educational
institutions and universities for the spread of education. Of which, the University of Bologna – (Italy 1088), the University of Oxford (United Kingdom, 1096-1167), the University of Salamanca (Spain, 1134), the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom, 1209) is the main one.
Today, historians who do not get tired of glorifying their Turks and Mughals, they should tell why after all, when efforts were being made to establish new dimensions for education in the whole world, then in a country like India, which was the main center of education for centuries. He used to represent education in the world, why did it end all of a sudden? After all, what was the reason that the rulers of India were destroying the culture and educational heritage here, and these invaders were busy with alcohol, luxury, and debauchery?
It is factually true that during the time of these foreign rulers, efforts were made to destroy the basic education and culture of
India and it continued continuously even after their downfall. After this, in 1857, the British established new educational institutions in Calcutta, Mumbai, and Madras (today’s Chennai) in India.
But the question arises that after ruling for 600 years, what did these Turks, Afghans, Lodi’s and Mughals give to India? As a matter of fact, any ruler always tries to leave some cultural and spiritual mark during his time so that future generations remember him. But all the rulers who got power here were only for the purpose of ruling here and kept destroying the Indian culture.
But there are marks of their cultural destruction on the land of India, this holy land is red due to their barbarism, and all their descendants who got power here, remained only for the purpose of ruling here and destroying Indian culture. This art chapter of the cultural history of India, but till now it has been presented as the history of India.
Shivjay Singh Tomar
