According to history text books of post partitioned hindu India as well as Bollywood films, the mughal kings are generally perceived to be kind & romantic lovers. The truth is that not many of us are aware of the horrendous cruelty that the mughals were capable of, a cruelty that was not surprising considering the fact that Babur’s father had descended from the Turkish conqueror, Timur the lame or Tamerlane and his mother descended from the warrior ‘born with a clot of blood in his fist’, Genghis Khan. Havoc and destruction had always emanated from the mughal nations. Anyone shocked by the indescribable cruelty of Babur and his heirs must recall that the blood of these two demonic warriors ran in their veins. This strain of cruelty that the Mughals inherited from their Tartar and Mongol ancestors meant that from the emperor down to the lowest faujdar had very little regard for human life. Babbar was indulged in unprovoked killings like his ancestor Timur, who played polo with the heads of his victims, Babur dotted the Indus valley with triumphal mounds of severed heads. Babur and every Mughal emperor who followed him to the throne embodied contradictory characteristics — sinister and naïve, surprisingly lenient and indescribably cruel, scholarly and ignorant, extremely religious and unashamedly self-indulgent. Cruelty was not uncommon to the Mughal women also and the beautiful Mumtaz Mahal was no exception. Mumtaz Mahal was not only cruel but she was a bigot, a religious fanatic and an arch enemy of Christianity. Her hatred for infidels is well known. Once she ordered a whole colony of Portuguese to be razed to the ground. His soldiers carried out their emperor’s orders with brutal efficiency. The survivors were brutally disposed of — the priests were thrown beneath elephants and the rest were sold as slaves. The instigator of this holy war was none other than Mumtaz Mahal.
Babur was born in the fifth generation of notorious Taimur on 14th February 1483. His father was Umar Sheikh who was the ruler of Farghana. In June 1494 at the age of only 11 years Babur became heir to Umar Sheikh. In those days his income was limited. Babur Zahir Ud Din Babr was a gay king. Homosexuality, those days, was common in Islamic culture during the 15th century in South Asia. Like a typical Sunnni Muslim family, Babur was married when he was young to girl named Ayesha Sultana Begum, but he had no interest in women. Emperor Babur lusted after men. (Babri Masjid was infact named after Babur’s Homosexual Partner Babri, who had always accompanied him in during all battles) Some of the example of demonic acts of the mughal kings against their own close relatives, are given below:- Babur left his elder sister Khanzada Begum at the mercy of invaders, whose ruler forcibly married her and then made her marry some one else. Humayun did not put his own rebellious brother Kamran Mirza to death, but blinded him for rest of his life. Akbar killed Adham Khan, his foster brother whose mother died of shock within a few weeks. Akbar married widow of Bairam Khan – his trusted prime minister ( who was assassinated by Akbar’s followers) Jahangir played a role in death of Sher Afghan, a skilled soldier and married Nur Jahan. He also blinded his own son Khusrau Mirza. Shah jahan was known as Khurram and killed his step brothers Shahyayr & Khusrau, Mirza, his blind step brother along with his sons Dawar and Garsharp. He also killed his cousins Tahmuras and Hoshangs. Aurangzeb put his own aged father under house arrest in Agra & killed his brothers Dara Shikoh and Murad Baksh and nephews and later put his own sister Roshanara Begum to death. Bahadur Shah (Ist) regularly plotted against Aurangzeb who loved him; but detained him and deprived him of all comforts. Jahandar Shah was known as the most debauched mughal emperor. His concubine Lal Kunwar, a courtesan ruled mughal kingdom. Farrukh Siyar killed Jahandar Shah and Zulkifikar Khan Nusrat Zung – considered as a learned mughal prime minister – and hanged on their heads on poles and made their aged parents walk in funeral procession. He was killed by unknown assailants, on the instructions of his own close relatives. Rafi Ud Darajat was cousin of Farrukh Siyar and ruled for three months as he was imprisoned and later poisoned in Agra fort. The Mughal emperors were an unpredictable lot, which made them even more dangerous. Death or other brutal punishments could be the consequence of harmless human errors. The men and women who attended to their royal masters in the courts and within the forbidden confines of the harems were easy targets of bouts of rage and capricious acts of cruelty.Jahangir penned his memoirs called Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, also known as Jahangirnama in which he relates how two drum-beaters and a guide mistakenly came into the clearing when he had proceeded to take aim at a nilgai (blue-bull antelope). The animal fled and the furious Jahangir had the guide executed and the two hapless drum-beaters were hamstrung, in other words their tendons behind their knees were sliced off, which left them crippled for life.
In April 1526, with the heat of the Doab grown insufferable already, his army comprising 12,000 horsemen approached that of Ibrahim Lodi. Babur’s forces had perfected the flank attack in the manner of the Mongols. Two Anatolian artillery specialists had equipped his army with mortars and matchlocks unknown in India, those times. Babur settled on Panipat near Delhi as the place gave his outnumbered troops the greatest chance of victory, and in panipat, he planned his battle strategy. The guns were strung out in the centre, with room between each shooter for cavalry to burst through. The wings were left free to out manoeuvre the opposition with their speed. His generals complained that no adversary will attack such a well-fortified position, but he predicted Ibrahim’s vastly larger army and the crushing power of his elephants will make the foe overconfident. His insight proved correct. His marched to Panipat, and mounted an attack at dawn on April 20, 1526. The Lodi forces made a headlong charge, and were confronted by a volley of fire, before being encircled by a flank assault. Hemmed in and confused, they tried to break out, but were repeatedly repulsed. Babur’s army emerged victorious. Thereafter he controlled all the land between Kabul and the frontiers of Bengal.
A few rebellions were crushed by him after the Panipat victory. Thereafter the looter treasury was distributed, among people of Kabul. Humayun, who had protected members of the Gwalior Raja’s family from harm in Agra after the battle, had been presented with a 40-gram diamond as a token of their gratitude. It is probably the gem from which the Kohinoor was required to be cut. He gave it to his father, who hands it back. This and other acts of generosity earn Babur the title Qalandar, which pleased him immensely. There are, however, kindnesses he regretted. Ibrahim Lodi’s mother, whom he had presented with a large estate, conspired to have his food poisoned. He recovered after falling violently ill, not having consumed enough of the deadly meat to die from it, but his health is never the same after the incident. Before long, news arrived that the ruler of Mewar, Rana Sanga, was planning an invasion. Sanga headed a Hindu Rajput confederacy. His army was well over a hundred thousand strong. He made overtures to Babur in the past, but no deal was concluded. The Rajput had hoped to pick off the weakened army of any of the winners of the war between Babur and Lodi. Babur had no faith in the forces he had inherited after Panipat. He dispatched them to protect different forts under his controls, depending on his Kabuli army to take on the Rajputs. But his soldiers were in no mood to fight, and his officers couldn’t understand why he was still hanging around in Hindustan. They wanted to return after the loot. The operating procedure was: To raid a few places around the Indus, grab as much loot as they could, and return. Babur had other plans. He had finally conquered a real empire and he didn’t want to let his place in history slip. His forces, though, were tired and homesick, and he fearer rebellion. The two armies mughal and Rajputs met at Khanua, near Sikri, on March 17, 1527. The battle was much harder fought than the one at Panipat, but Babur’s firepower, was superior, and the Rajputs were defeated. In the clean-up operation after his triumph at Khanwa, for instance, he besieged Chanderi, held by one of Rana Sanga’s lieutenants, Medini Rao. Rajput women chose jauhar consequent to this defeat. There was now no major power in India that could threaten him. He spent his remaining time concluding treaties, quelling rebellions. Babur’s birthplace, Ferghana, lies in modern Uzbekistan, but he hated the Uzbeks above all his enemies. His grave is in Afghanistan, but he railed against the untrustworthiness of Afghans. In India, where he died, he is known as a cruel mughal king, while Uzbekistan has adopted Babur as a national hero. Babur’s name has been in the limelight, not for the gardens he designed, but for a temple he is supposed to have destroyed. The Babri Masjid is central to a larger narrative that labels him an oppressor of Hindus. Babur did nothing good to India instead he damaged many hindu temples & and converted many Hindus to Islam. Yet, it wasn’t he that sought to fight the Rajputs, but Rana Sanga who invaded his newly-won dominion. He did appeal to faith in the Khanua battle, and described defeated Hindu opponents as kafirs sent to hell. While such phrases, pervasive in Muslim histories, make unpleasant reading, he didn’t treat Hindu adversaries any differently from the dozens of Muslim foes he had confronted. Babur had 12 thousand soldiers in his army who were utterly undisciplined. These soldiers had only looting intentions of Indian wealth. In 1523 Babur had came to India via Peshawar and after crossing over Sindhu river upto Sialkot with no resistance whatsoever he was able to enter Saiadpur, which is situated at 15 Km. south east of Gujranwala. In Amnabad, the soldiers of Babur mercilessly killed and looted whatever came in their way. Amnabad looked like a lost rite grounds of dead bodies. Females were forcibly kidnapped and put through all kinds of cruelty. After seeing these conditions in Saidpur in that time Guru Nanak Dev ji narrated first Shabad in Tilang rag making address to Bhai Lalo ji. Guru Nanak Dev ji says O! Bhai Lalo! I’m watching this great sorrowful condition of women in near future because of the lustful invaders putting them to great disrespect and cruelty. It is not that only Hindu women had to put up with this even the local Muslim women would not be spared. The Muslim women would then recite ‘Ayats’ from Quran and would take the name of Khuda but to no avail. Tragedy would come at a very big scale. Not only the women of high caste Hindu but low caste Hindu women would have to undergo the same trauma. There shall be sung blood riddled songs all over Saidpur (Amnabad) because of these bloody marriage ceremonies. That means large scale deaths wailings and crying everywhere. In marriagessaffron is sprinkled but in those Satanic marriages instead of that blood would be tossed around. Less relevant to India, but important in assessing Babur’s overall tolerance of alternate belief systems, was his even-handed treatment of Shias. He lived in a time of great Shia- Sunni conflict, consequent to the Safavi emperors commencing the conversion of Iran into a Shia-majority land.
