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H-M synthesis: "reverse conversions" in Mughal and pre-Mughal India
by Guest Mon May 15, 2017 6:59 pm
Mahmud bin Amir Ali Balkhi, a Central Asian traveler to India in Jahangir’s reign was horrified to see a group of 23 Muslims in Banaras who had deserted their religion and turned Hindu, having fallen in love with Hindu women. “For some time”, he records, “I held their company and questioned them about their mistaken way. They pointed towards the sky and put their fingers on their foreheads. By this I understood that they attributed it to Providence”, Balkhi concludes ruefully.
Zain al-Abidin, pre-Mughal ruler of Kashmir (1420-70) formally permitted Muslim converts to return to their Hindu faith if they so wished. As did Akbar later on, who also decreed that a Hindu converted against his will at any age “could return to the religion of his forefathers”. The eminent 15th-16th century saint-poet Chaitanya Mahaprabhu reconverted the Muslim governor of Odisha and converted a group of Pathans, who were not Hindus in the first instance, even as Hinduism is not a proselytising religion. They earned the sobriquet of ‘Pathan Vaishnavas’.
The Persian language text of the 17th century, Dabistan-i Mazahib, written by a Zoroastrian, Mobed, implies the considerable existence of reconversion at the higher levels and mentions, among others, two high nobles of Shah Jahan’s court – Mirza Salih and Mirza Haidar – who had converted from Hinduism and then returned to their original religion. Neither was punished.
At the mass level, Shah Jahan discovered that in the Bhimbhar region of Kashmir, it was common for Muslim boys to marry Hindu girls, with the boys then converting to Hinduism. He tried to stop it but found that his diktat had no effect. The Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind, also reconverted a large number and the Dabistan mentions this with some hyperbole: “Not a Muslim was left between the hills of Kiratpur in Punjab and the frontiers of Tibet and Khotan’.
History is never simple, you see.
https://thewire.in/9943/as-aurangzeb-is-erased-here-are-some-tales-from-the-flip-side-of-history/
Zain al-Abidin, pre-Mughal ruler of Kashmir (1420-70) formally permitted Muslim converts to return to their Hindu faith if they so wished. As did Akbar later on, who also decreed that a Hindu converted against his will at any age “could return to the religion of his forefathers”. The eminent 15th-16th century saint-poet Chaitanya Mahaprabhu reconverted the Muslim governor of Odisha and converted a group of Pathans, who were not Hindus in the first instance, even as Hinduism is not a proselytising religion. They earned the sobriquet of ‘Pathan Vaishnavas’.
The Persian language text of the 17th century, Dabistan-i Mazahib, written by a Zoroastrian, Mobed, implies the considerable existence of reconversion at the higher levels and mentions, among others, two high nobles of Shah Jahan’s court – Mirza Salih and Mirza Haidar – who had converted from Hinduism and then returned to their original religion. Neither was punished.
At the mass level, Shah Jahan discovered that in the Bhimbhar region of Kashmir, it was common for Muslim boys to marry Hindu girls, with the boys then converting to Hinduism. He tried to stop it but found that his diktat had no effect. The Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind, also reconverted a large number and the Dabistan mentions this with some hyperbole: “Not a Muslim was left between the hills of Kiratpur in Punjab and the frontiers of Tibet and Khotan’.
History is never simple, you see.
https://thewire.in/9943/as-aurangzeb-is-erased-here-are-some-tales-from-the-flip-side-of-history/
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Re: H-M synthesis: "reverse conversions" in Mughal and pre-Mughal India
by SomeProfile Tue May 16, 2017 12:47 pm
How is that hast-maithun synthesis working out for you?
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Re: H-M synthesis: "reverse conversions" in Mughal and pre-Mughal India
by Guest Tue May 16, 2017 1:13 pm
the stuff about the Mahitaryal and the hindu saint Kalyan Bhati has considerable contemporary significance. See page 44 of this book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=1vsjBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=kalyan+bhati+hindu+saint&source=bl&ots=9nCVrYlUBt&sig=ydhhYtVOCv7RUmt0_yAql9vfWbk&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiF26fmgPXTAhXGwiYKHbB-BMcQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=kalyan%20bhati%20hindu%20saint&f=false
Mahitaryal is a book composed by a hindu sage in Bundelkhand (a region overlapping modern UP and MP) in which an attempt was made to synthesise the Vedas and the Koran.
https://books.google.com/books?id=1vsjBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=kalyan+bhati+hindu+saint&source=bl&ots=9nCVrYlUBt&sig=ydhhYtVOCv7RUmt0_yAql9vfWbk&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiF26fmgPXTAhXGwiYKHbB-BMcQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=kalyan%20bhati%20hindu%20saint&f=false
Mahitaryal is a book composed by a hindu sage in Bundelkhand (a region overlapping modern UP and MP) in which an attempt was made to synthesise the Vedas and the Koran.
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Re: H-M synthesis: "reverse conversions" in Mughal and pre-Mughal India
by SomeProfile Tue May 16, 2017 6:24 pm
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