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I missed this intriguing thread and am only reading it now. And let me tell you, it is one big mess. I don't know how people are interacting here but hats off to you.
Even i miss Abhay's and Kamal's posts so much. It was one of the main reasons i came to this forum and stayed.
I am nowhere near to Abhay and Kamal on historical knowledge and probably haven't even put in 1% of the hard work on gathering information but i do know some stuff.
Mariam-uz-Zamani was Akbar's favorite and one of the most powerful women in Mughal empire at par with Nur Jahan. Infact in Jahangir's time Nur Jahan was the power BEHIND the throne.
MUZ was revered and famously called the Queen Mother of Hindustan. Despite the poor source Jahangirnamas prove to be, they are consistent in one thing: Jahangir refers to his mother as Her Majesty. Doesn't this one epithet of respect make MUZ at par with the King himself officially? Isn't it enough to prove the kind of power she commanded?
Somebody who reads even a little about Mughal history, would come across the injustice served to MUZ. Her name and power has been obliterated from Mughal records because of petty prejudice. Findly takes a note of it. And it seems like even now she is prejudiced against.
But no one is interested in solving this mystery. People just quote and re-quote whatever is written by the predecessors and publish the books. No one wants to even verify what the others have written. The better books whose authors have taken the pains to verify information and scoop out new facts, get lost in obscurity. Why you ask? Because these authors realize that what their contemporaries have relied on is just centuries old gossip, didn't even care to verify to it and write their own versions (or FFs). But this is what people like to read and their books sell like hot cakes.
The same is happening in this forum. Unverified stories, malicious gossip from 16-17th century is being presented as real history and members are lapping it up. And point fingers at the people (Abhay and Kamal) who have actually worked very hard to unearth information and go beyond the usual sources. What is even more surprising is the attitude of the forum MODs.
The quality of work presented by Kamal, Abhay and Lizzy is phenomenal. But sadly this forum doesn't appreciate it. That is why their threads have been closed down.
One only realizes the worth of something when they have lost it. Looks like only when Abhay leaves then people might realize the err they have done just to prove facts and their version of history is right, when is reality it doesn't even exist.
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