Nehru/Gandhi family visited  Babur's grave

SARASIJ MAJUMDER

Name of the Book: Babur-Nama – Autobiography by Zahiru’d-Din Muhammed Babur.

This author was the founder of the Moghul dynasty in India who proclaimed himself a Padshah (Ruler) after his victory in the First Battle of Panipat (1526CE), and a Ghazi (killer of kafirs) after the defeat of Rana Sanga in the Battle of Khanwa (1528 CE). While presenting himself as an indefatigable warrior and drug addict, he does not hide the cruelties he committed on the defeated people, particularly his fondness for building towers of the heads of those he captured as prisoners of war or killed in battle. He is very liberal in citing appropriate verses from the Quran on the eve of the battle with Rana Sanga. In order to ensure his victory, he makes a covenant with Allah by breaking the vessels containing wine as also the cups for drinking it, swearing at the same time that “he would break the idols of the idol-worshippers in a similar manner.” In the Fateh-Nama (prayer for victory) composed for him by Shaykh Zain, Allah is described as “the destroyer of idols from their foundations” The language he uses for his Hindu adversaries is typically Islamic.

In “ Babur-Nama”—he has narrated the temples he destroyed in details, which I will cover in a later BLOG. Only two incidents are furnished below as sample.

• Chanderi (Madhya Pradesh): “In AH 934 (AD 1528), I attacked Chanderi and, by the grace of Allah, captured it in a few hours. We got the infidels slaughtered, and the place which had been a daru’l-harb for years was made into daru’l-Islam. “
• Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh): “Next day, at the time of the noon prayer, we went out for seeing those places in Gwalior which we had not seen yet. Going out of the Hathipole Gate of the fort, we arrived at a place called Urwa. Urwa is not a bad place. It is an enclosed space. Its biggest blemish is its statues. I ordered that they should be destroyed.”

Four generations of Nehru/Gandhi family visited Mughal invader Babur's grave in Afghanistan, as listed below:--

 1) The first Prime Minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru visited Babur's grave in Afghanistan on the 19th September, 1959.

 2) The third Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, visited Babur’s grave in Afghanistan along with her son Rajeev Gandhi in the year, 1969. This fact has been scripted by Natwar Singh in his autobiography 'One Life is not Enough'.

3) The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, again revisited  the grave of Babur in the year, 1976, accompanied by Rajeev Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, who was a kid.

4) The last Congress Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh Along with Rahul Gandhi visited the grave of Babur, in Afghanistan, in August, 2005.

1.0 Ref:-https://www.opindia.com/2021/08/three-generations-of-nehru-gandhi-family-visited-baburs-tomb-in-kabul-hotstar-the-empire/

2.0' One Life is not Enough'.--Natwar Singh

JAY SHREE RAM.