Swara Bhasker trolled for saying "The Mughals made India rich"

There was a confrontation on Twitter after the Bollywood Act, Swara Bhasker An old article claimed that the Mughals, instead of being barbaric invaders, were making India rich.

The article by historian Rana Salvi pontificated that even though the Mughals had come to India to conquer, they had remained Indian.

The author also attempts to reinforce this point by stating that the Mughals were accepted by the Indians, prompting Indian soldiers to gather around Bahadur Shah Zafar, a sleeping animal, and crowned him. Emperor of Hindustan "in 1857.

Many Twitter residents did not agree with the hypothesis.

Blogger and author Arnab Ray wrote: "The Mughals were a genocidal occupation force and justified the Mughal reign by claiming that they" were developing roads, etc. " different to justify Hitler by claiming that he had taken Germany to the rank of power number one in Europe or justifying that Stalin had made the USSR a superpower. "

The historian Hindol Sengupta also pointed out that it was" nonsense "that the recurrent facts of Mughal India were" devastating famines " He wrote, "This is of course nonsense, and you would be particularly unable to read to believe in something so simplistic." In fact, most of the inhabitants of Mughal India were extremely poor Although much of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the monarchy and the nobility, one of the reverberant and recurrent facts of Mughal India has been the devastating famine. "

added: "From Mundy to Bernier at Early, they noted in detail how the peasants were devastated and subjugated even though the princes the nobility and of course the monarchs lived in an elegant style and spent absurd sums in their wars. I mentioned three writers and many others explained in detail the cruelty of abject poverty that most of India faces in Mughal. Do not propagate simplistic tales. There is no doubt that the Mughals enriched some people, but many others suffered terribly and were persecuted without mercy. A striking example: WH Moreland, who conducted the fundamental economic study of medieval India in his book De Akbar in Aurangzeb: A study in economic history highlighted torture, despair, extortion and inequality and has called this period "hell" for the people 's man. "

Swara Bhasker is a vocal critic of the current dispensation. During the 2019 elections, Kanhaiya Kumar, ICC candidate in Begusarai, Amra Ram Sikar, ICC candidate (M), Digvijaya Singh of INC in Bhopal and Aatishi of AAP in Delhi East. All lost by huge margins. She also supported Milind Deora of Congress and Urmila Matondkar in Bombay