It is said that ‘Politics is the name of the dead, and the film’ Chhava ‘released last month has created such a stir in the politics that it has brought a Turk’ Aurangzeb ‘of the Mughal Sultanate to the market of discussion again.
In Maharashtra, SP leader Abu Azmi had given a statement that ‘I do not consider the 17th -century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb as a cruel, tyrannical or intolerant ruler. These days, a distorted image of the Mughal emperor is being created through films.
Uproar over SP leader Abu Azmi’s statement
This statement was caught by the opposing parties. Since then, Abu Azmi has apologized, has given clarification, but the debate has now moved a step further. Questions are being raised about Aurangzeb’s absence. In response to this question, reference of a book based on the life of Aurangzeb of the historian Yadunath Sarkar can be taken. Apart from this, many British and Italian historians have also told the story related to Aurangzeb in their books, which is directly related to him and his elder brother Darashikoh.
The central government was searching for the grave of Darashikoh
Till the last two years ago, a news was in the news, the central government is looking for the answer to the question that where is the real grave of the most surprise and scholar Shahzade Darashikoh of the Mughal era? Former ASI Regional Director KK Muhammad then said in a media conversation that as far as the search for his grave is concerned, the government and ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) With the help of a handed X-ray device, you can take an X-ray image of tombs located behind Humayun’s tomb in Delhi and also conduct a survey.
According to him, according to historical documents, there is no such example other than Darashikoh in the Mughal period, in which only a Mughal Shahzade’s head was buried and buried. In the X-ray image, the tomb in which the skeleton is seen without head should be accepted as the grave of Dara.
Question, who cut the head of Dara Shikoh?
The answer to this question is Aurangzeb Alamgir. Dara Shikoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan. Shah Jahan wanted him a lot and wanted to make him the emperor. Darashikoh was interested in all religions and he also got Urdu-Persian translations of many Hindu religious texts. Instead of power and politics, Darashikoh is known as a person like Aman. Shah Jahan was imprisoned by Aurangzeb in Agra and declared himself a king.
Chhawa is also mentioned in the film Darashikoh’s head beheading
In the fight for power, he defeated Dara Shikoh in the fight, then imprisoned, rotated on the streets of Delhi and killed him in the last. Historians mention that Aurangzeb presented the sliced ​​head of Dara Shikoh by decorating Shah Jahan in the plate. In a scene of the film Chhawa, Aurangzeb says that I cut the head of my brother Darashikoh and sent it to my father Shah Jahan.
Shah Jahan’s Aziz son was Darashikoh
Avik Chanda, who wrote the book (Dara Shukoh, The Man Hu Wood by King) on ​​the lives of Darashikoh and Aurangzeb, told the BBC that Darashikoh had a personality and politics at all. On the contrary, he was also a little bit. Dara was the elder son of Emperor Shah Jahan and his Aziz. Aurangzeb had a feud with him since childhood. While Shah Jahan always kept Darashikoh close to him, Aurangzeb was being sent to the warship from the age of 16.
An incident, which was drawn between Aurangzeb and Dara
Avik Chanda said, ‘Shah Jahan sent Aurangzeb towards Deccan at the age of just sixteen. He led a large military campaign there, similarly Murad Bakhsh Gujarat and Shahshuja went to Bengal, but Dara, Shah Jahan kept it with him in the court. The foundation of Adavat between Dara and Aurangzeb fell years ago, when one day the Mughal family was entertaining seeing the battle of elephants, Aurangzeb got hit by a bustle elephant. He bravely faced this situation and was also avoided by others. During this time, people gathered around him, but Aurangzeb saw that Darashikoh standing nearby did not show any interest in saving Aurangzeb.
According to the historians, Aurang, who was moving towards youth, was in the heart of his elder brother Dara that day, later the same rift also turned into a deep gorge of power struggle between the two. When Aurangzeb defeated him in the war for power with Dara, historians have also described it very closely.
Darashikoh lost badly to Aurangzeb
Italian historian Nikolao Manuchi has written about the struggle that, initially Dara was a bit heavy, but then Aurangzeb came into the fray with his entire military strength and tip. He made a panic in Dara’s party by adopting many types of strategies and at one time it came that the soldiers saw that Dara’s Hoda is empty on the elephant’s back. He felt that Darashikoh, a big contender for the Mughal Sultanate, was killed in the succession battle and his feet started to be uprooted. Aurangzeb took advantage of this opportunity and attacked them with cannons and guns. Dara Shikoh’s army dispersed and he lost the succession battle.
The plight of Darashikoh
A very close description of the situation after Dara’s defeat has also been described by the famous historian Jadunath Sarkar in Aurangzeb’s biography. According to him, ‘After going a few miles ahead of the horse, Darashikoh stayed under a tree and sat there. Dara was very surprised and granted and wanted to open the poems on his head, because he was pricking his forehead very late and causing scratches in the skin. But Darashikoh had such a fatigue that he could not even take his hand.
The government further writes, ‘Finally around nine o’clock in the night, Dara along with some horsemen reached the main gate of the Fort of Agra like thieves. His horses were badly tired and there was no torch in the hands of his soldiers. There was silence in the entire city as if it was mourning something. Without saying any words, Dara got down from his horse and entered inside his house and closed his door. Dara Shikoh had lost the battle of the Mughal Emperor.
This was just the beginning, Aurangzeb was going to do even more plight of Darashikoh. Dara was finally caught one day and then brought to Delhi while running and escaped. From here, there was a bad solution with Darashikoh.
Son also tortured along with Darashikoh
In the French historian Francua Bernier’s book ‘Travels in the Mughal India’, there is a mention mentioned with Darashikoh. On the reversal of his books, it is found that on the orders of Aurangzeb, Dara was seated on an elephant, Dara’s 14 -year -old son was placed on another elephant and a slave of Aurangzeb followed him with a naked sword. Dara Shikoh was rolled on the streets of bare body, naked Badan Delhi and his 14 -year -old son was also burnt.
… and Darashikoh’s head was cut
In the scorching sun of August, along with Dara and his son, this Sulook Delhi looked with his bowed eyes and people standing on the roadside came to this condition a lot. After this, on the orders of Aurangzeb, Darashikoh was put in jail with his son. It is recorded in the book that only after this, Darashikoh was accused of being opposed to Islam and it was also decided that Dara Shikoh be killed. Aurangzeb ordered his slave Nazar Baig that he wanted to see the sliced ​​head of Dara Shikoh.
When the chopped head was brought in front of Aurangzeb, he was stained with blood. Aurangzeb kept looking at him for some time and then said, clean its blood and brought it properly. The order was served and when the head was brought this time, Aurangzeb recognized it carefully and after being satisfied that the chopped head belongs to Darashikoh, he now gave the next order. This was the order to take the head to Agra …
Aurangzeb sent Shah Jahan in a saucer and Darashikoh’s head
Italian historian Nikolao Manuchi has described a very loaming description of this incident in his book Storia Do Mogor. He writes that “Alamgir gave Etibar Khan, who worked for himself, the responsibility of sending a letter to Shah Jahan. It was written on the envelope of that letter that Aurangzeb, your son, is sending this sauce in your khidmat, which you will never forget.
After getting that letter, Shah Jahan, who was old till then, said- Thank God that my son still remembers me. At the same time, a covered sauce was presented in front of him. When Shah Jahan removed his lid, his scream came out, because his eldest son Dara was kept in the sauce. “
Dara’s head buried in Taj Mahal
Manuchi further writes, ‘The rest of the torso of Dara was buried in Humayun’s mausoleum but on the order of Aurangzeb, Dara’s head was buried in the premises of Taj Mahal. He believed that whenever Shah Jahan’s eye would go on his begum’s tomb, he would think that his eldest son’s head is also rotting there. Although historians have never been unanimous about where the real grave of Darashikoh is, but this incident is enough to prove Aurangzeb’s cruelty.