Originally posted by: cricketfan1
If you read books and love History, the first thing you need to be aware of is how it always has various versions and that it depends upon who gets to say what....You need to be openminded to learn more about what you think you already know....One needs to keep on questioning and getting more information if you claim to be a History lover! There is so much more to it but since you said you are a History lover, I am sure I don’t have to go into anymore deets here...
I will just say this though...There is no such thing as facts in History- its more like your version, my version and then the actual fact! I am sure I don’t have to tell you that Google is nothing but people like you and me who claim to have read books and knew better, posting their own versions of it....So yes, you still don’t know any better than the google...
EDIT: Just noticed that you have edited your post.. Thank you for sharing these much needed tidbits...I may not be as passionate but I do love these historicals...and of course my main reason for being interested in Takht is no big secret either...:)
That s completely all rights for starters you can read the quotes that i have posted on takth movie thread and then read "daughter of sun" trust me it is a great book that gives a great insight into worlds of mughals and into this famous rivalry between mumtaz kids. Who were destroyed by their fathers neglect and partiality shah jahan was shitty father a sex maniac.
I know you are ranveer s fan so dara s character will be your prime interest allow me to quote some of the traveller of those time and their views about dara
Here we go -
"Adored by his sister, whose influence is endless, and favoured by his father the padshah, Dara Shikoh grows into a young man with talent and charisma, certainly, but one who is extremely leery of the slightest criticism. In time, this will become a fatal tendency towards arrogance. ‘The first born son of King Shahjahan,’ agrees Manucci, is ‘a man of dignified manners, of a comely countenance, joyous and polite in conversation, ready and gracious of speech, of most extraordinary liberality, kindly and compassionate, but over-confident in his opinion of himself, considering himself competent in all things and having no need of advisers.’
You see two main reasons that led his doom was his overconfident nature and his father s excessive love for him
Here are some quotes about Aurangzeb -
Meanwhile, there is a younger son whom everyone seems to be oblivious of, who is growing up under the claustrophobic shadow of Shah Jahan and Dara Shikoh. This mirza is ‘very different from the others, being in character very secretive and serious, carrying on his affairs in a hidden way, but most energetically’. When he is barely fifteen years old this prince, Aurangzeb, momentarily bursts onto the imperial scene. During an elephant fight organized in front of the entire durbar and all the royal princes, Aurangzeb is flung from his horse by an incensed elephant. While the other princes, including Dara Shikoh, maintain a prudent distance, Aurangzeb, helped by Shah Shuja and demonstrating remarkable bravery and sangfroid, confronts the animal on foot with his sword and subdues it. When admonished by Shah Jahan for putting his life at risk, the young mirza sneers at his older brothers claiming, not incorrectly, that ‘the shame lay in what my brothers did’.
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