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Heroes of Islamic India

From the Chapati Mystery Blog:

On a visit to the Punjab, the blog editor  visited Jahangir’s tomb with friends. The tomb of the 4th Mughal Emperor and son of Akbar the great, lies at the outskirts of Lahore by the river Ravi. Rather, it used to. Lahore swallowed up Ravi. It swallowed up the tomb. Jahangir is now in Lahore’s belly.

Heroes of Islam from Alexander the Great to Tipu Sultan.

Heroes of Islam from Alexander the Great to Tipu Sultan.

“At the ticket counter, affixed to the window was a poster of South Asian Islam’s great heroes. Or that is what I thought,… , my eyes turned back to the poster. It was not what I had assumed. The Mughals were there. But so was Sher Shah Suri (who threw Humayun out of India). Chinghiz Khan, Hulagu Khan, Timur and Nadir Shah – destroyers of Iran, Iraq and Delhi – were also present. Salahuddin Ayubi and Tariq bin Zayad were there, but so was Alexander the Great. Razia Sultana and Noor Jahan. This was not heroes of “Islam”. It was not “South Asia”. What a weird poster.”


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