Chors, Fasaadis and Haramzaadas : India’s medieval Jat insurrectionaries seem strangely familiar today The past helps illuminate the present, offering insight, for those who care for it, into how this crisis came about, and where it might head Praveen Swami February 09, 2021 10:26:22 IST Representational image. AP
The savage tide of rage broke through the great bronze gates, exploding over the cascades of gemstones, marble and gold that lined the emperor’s grave. “Against him living they could do nothing,” the not-invariably reliable memoirs of the physician Niccolao Mannuci record, “they therefore reaped vengeance on his sepulchre”. That which could not be looted was destroyed. The bones of Abu’l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Akbar, King of Kings, were dug up and set on fire. In all the centuries it had stood, no greater insult had ever been delivered t