NOVEL~*Hiding behind a Stranger*~THREAD 48 - CHAPTER 53 - Page 167

Originally posted by: Kalgi22

So I'm the only correctly guessed them. 😆

Originally posted by: Testmytest

Akbar akso banned forced Sati.

Mughal emperor Humayun fist banned practice of Sati but could not implement the law strictly. The next emperor Akbar banned it by law. Mughal emperor Akbar had allowed Sati to take place only if the wife willingly wanted to follow it. But many times woman were forced to commit Sati or pushed into funeral pyre by her own relatives against the law.

One day Akbar heard that one of his wife's cousin sister was being forced to commit sati by her sons on the death of her husband. The lady in question was Rani Damayenti the daughter of Mota Raja Uadi Singh of Jodhpur and Rani Jasvant. Her husband was Raja Jai Mal of Mertha who died in 1583. Rani Damayenti refused to be burnt on her husbands funeral pyre but her sons and relatives forced her as they felt it was against their honor to allow their mother to live as a widow. Akbar got this news from his harem and rode all the way from agra to Ranathambore non-stop to save this lady from being forced to commit sati on her husband's funeral pyre. Akbar arrived just in time to stop the sati and save her life. Akbar wanted to execute the people who forced the lady to funeral pyre but later granted them reprive and merely imprisoned them for a short while.

But he was accused of interfering with Hindu religious pracrices by the then nobilities.

And the irony is that Aurangazeb ( our 'kind' Shehzade) is considered a great Emperor across the borders. Their history books hail him.

Edited by Sandhya.A - 6 years ago

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

No.😉

Appu saw stable maids in the duo as well. 😊

(Pg 200)

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

Akbar akso banned forced Sati.

Mughal emperor Humayun fist banned practice of Sati but could not implement the law strictly. The next emperor Akbar banned it by law. Mughal emperor Akbar had allowed Sati to take place only if the wife willingly wanted to follow it. But many times woman were forced to commit Sati or pushed into funeral pyre by her own relatives against the law.

One day Akbar heard that one of his wife's cousin sister was being forced to commit sati by her sons on the death of her husband. The lady in question was Rani Damayenti the daughter of Mota Raja Uadi Singh of Jodhpur and Rani Jasvant. Her husband was Raja Jai Mal of Mertha who died in 1583. Rani Damayenti refused to be burnt on her husbands funeral pyre but her sons and relatives forced her as they felt it was against their honor to allow their mother to live as a widow. Akbar got this news from his harem and rode all the way from agra to Ranathambore non-stop to save this lady from being forced to commit sati on her husband's funeral pyre. Akbar arrived just in time to stop the sati and save her life. Akbar wanted to execute the people who forced the lady to funeral pyre but later granted them reprive and merely imprisoned them for a short while.

But he was accused of interfering with Hindu religious pracrices by the then nobilities.

And the irony is that Aurangazeb ( our 'kind' Shehzade) is considered a great Emperor across the borders. Their history books hail him.

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

Very colourful. Thanks for sharing Manu.

And yes, now that you mention it, i can spot the peacock at the far end corresponding to the mooshak at this end.

Normally in TN, Murugan ( Karthikeya) is considered as younger to Ganesh ji. So got confused.

Originally posted by: roseraja1915

OMG! OMG! OMG! I spoke to Vathsy!🥳

Bindup, I want that running around emoji to join the party!

Please someone pinch me hard!!!!!!😳

The lovely lady called me about 25 minutes ago at 5 p.m. ( local time). She was at Berjaya Times Square , K.L. Said they arrived from Singapore by coach , reached almost midnight last night, spent touring KL the entire day , visited all the famous tourist spots and ecstatic they managed to climb the 272 steps at Batu Caves .👏

She thought since an MD was not possible why not talk over the phone? She used the bus driver's mobile to call me and as she was returning the phone to him, I heard him say, if you had told me, I would have taken you there ( I am assuming he meant to bring Vathsy to meet me ).

She said she might not be able to log in since they will be travelling back to Singapore and leaving the island tomorrow. Felt sad that she would not be able to meet up again with Chellam since Chellam is in Chennai.

Oh God! I have yet to calm down after that wonderful surprise!

Originally posted by: Sabdabhala

BHABHIJAAN 😆 CANT REMEMBER SEEING YOU AS EXCITED THAN THIS EVER 😆


NOT EVEN WHEN YOU POSTED THAT LEAFY GREEN BED FOR MIRZA BHAIJAAN 😆


SUPER GESTURE VATHSY 👏 AND WONDERFUL REACTION BHABHIJAAN 😉


MANU IS THIS PUJA PANDAL IN C R PARK?

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

This is an older TOI article. Reminded me of Lavi's lament a few days ago. Just thought of sharing. 😕

In the latter half of the 16th century, when Elizabethan England was persecuting Catholics and the Spanish Inquisition had become an instrument of terror, one Indian ruler had established the first nursery of Indian secularism at Fatehpur Sikri. He held socio-religious and spiritual discussions with men of different faiths at the ibadatkhana. That was Mughal emperor Akbar, a man far ahead of his time

But the emperor's legacy is now under siege. Last week in Delhi, members of a Hindutva outfit defaced the signage of a road named after Akbar and several other Muslim rulers. They wanted these roads renamed after Hindu rulers like Shivaji and Maharana Pratap.

Days later, Union home minister Rajnath Singh demanded the epithet great' for Rana Pratap. He also said that the rest of the country should follow Rajasthan's example and devote a full chapter to the Mewar ruler in history textbooks. Many interpreted this as an official signal to knock down one of India's most remarkable rulers.

A smear campaign against the emperor seems to be currently running on social media. Tweets, Facebook posts, blogs and chainmail are calling Akbar a "rapist, looter and killer coming from a family of drunkards, illiterates, homosexuals and child molesters. And all sorts of falsehoods culled from TV serials, myths, legends, and propaganda are being passed off as the "real history of Akbar.

"It's unfortunate that people are so gullible that they lap up fiction as fact. While there can be no doubt that Maharana Pratap was an important figure in history, it's unfair to compare him with Akbar, says archaeologist and historian Dr KK Mohammed, who discovered Akbar's ibadatkhana at Fatehpur Sikri in the 1980s.

The scholar elaborates his point with a historical anecdote: "Once in Hormuz, some Portuguese had tied a copy of the Quran around the neck of an ass and released it in the market. Akbar's advisors asked the emperor to tie the Bible around a dog's neck and release it in Agra. Akbar refused. If the actions of the Portuguese were wrong, then this would be wrong too, he reasoned. His stance showed his remarkable mind and spirit.

Professor Jos Gommans of Leiden University says for the cohesion of India as a nation, Akbar will do a much better job as a hero than Rana Pratap or Shivaji. "Akbar inspired even Dutch liberals in the mid-19th century to build a secular society without religious interference.

Dirk Collier, author of The Emperor's Writings: Memories of Akbar the Great points out that historical facts are being ignored in the debate. "The resistance of Maharana Pratap against Akbar has often been portrayed as a desperate and noble struggle for Hindu independence against the overwhelmingly superior forces of a Muslim invader, but, as most historians agree, it was hardly that. The Hindu kings of Amber, Bikaner and Bundi sided with Akbar, and even Rana Pratap's own brother Sagaraj did the same. Pratap's army, on the other hand, included large Afghan contingents. Only 30 years before the fall of Chittor, an earlier Rana of Mewar had marched against the neighbouring king of Malwa in alliance with the Muslim sultan of Gujarat. In other words: the Mewar conflict was essentially one of local rivalries, he says.

A current television serial eulogises Rana Pratap and vilifies Akbar as an ever-scheming, bloodthirsty bigot. Its impact has been such that one blogger says her five-year-old neighbour is yet to study history but already hates Akbar. But, argues historian Tripta Wahi, Akbar's secularism remains unmatched even today. "He separated religion from the state his Tauheed-i-Illahi or Din-i-Illahi was essentially a reflection of that policy. It was Akbar who had abolished slavery in India. He also abolished sati in his empire, centuries before Sir William Bentinck, she says.

Wahi also points out that in the 1560s, when the Mughals were trying to create a bigger state system, the indigenous states, Hindu as well as Muslim, were resisting it. "Akbar was resisted by the Sharqis of Jaunpur, the Afghan sultans of Bengal, the Bahmani kingdom and its splinter states, Gujarat and Malwa all these were Muslim kingdoms. And some of them resisted for far longer than Mewar. Yet you don't hear the proponents of Hindutva talking about Chand Bibi or Malik Ambar of Ahmednagar sultanate.

Across the border in Pakistan, Akbar is not seen as a great ruler either. Islamic hardliners there sometimes dismiss him as the "infidel king for his secular views. All of Pakistan's missiles or weapon systems are named after Babur, Ahmed Shah Abdali, Mahmud of Ghazni or Muhammad Ghori but none after Akbar.

Originally posted by: cute.manasi

kartikeya ji younger than ganeshji...😕