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Shabaz Khan told correctly that historicals are over dramatized and fictionalized to gain TRP
Regarding Akbar and Maharana Pratap
Akbar wanted to rule entire indian sub continent that was his dream
Secondly Mewar was an important route for trade and travel to Afghanistan which was under him so he wanted that kingdom
Pratap wanted to rule independently not under Akbar nothing wrong with that too. But Pratap failed in one thing making entire rajputhana and india one. Akbar succeded in that by marriage alliances and giving high positions to non mughals and by treating them as his equals and not forcing people to convert basically treating all humans as one irrespective of religion, caste and creed etc. Otherwise look at aurangzeb regime he was more powerful and had bigger kingdom than akbar, jehangir, shah jahan but no one was loyal to him not even mughals because of his policies.
So both are right in their own ways. What Akbar did at Chittor killing 30000 civillans can never be justified?
Akbar participated in wars and fought them with his army till he was 30-35 years old or so till the Gujarat war. After that usually he sent his generals or his sons to lead the war and went rarely. He stopped going to the wars as frequently after he got a sevre hit in a battle and started getting seizures. This is recorded in akbarnama although as some divine happening.
Akbar had almost 180 rebellions in his kingdom in his life time and many more wars to win new land. Hence he could not go to all the wars/rebellions himself. So nothing wrong with that. He went to war in his 50s also when Salim marched to agra so that means he went to wars at later stage of life too. We cannot deduce he was scared of war or facing MP.
But why was Akbar liked by his citizens if he was an non indian and non hindu? That is because of his administration skills and liberal views(though i agree sometimes he ordered hindu temples demolished) like banning sati, banning child marriage, widow remarriage, giving opportunity to deserving hindus in court etc which previous muslim kings had not done or done rarely. And that too under the dreadful circumsatnces he was in held hostage by his own uncles, he was dyslexic(a mental disorder hence he was illiterate), father died at 13 years, everyone baying to kill him at first opportunity. In such circumstances he has not got scared not given up in fear and run off but stood his ground and achieved whatever he could that is his biggest achievements despite all his faults.
All mughals were not non indians Jehangir was born in india and his mother was indian so going by modern rules he was not only an 100% indian citizen(like if a child born in Us becomes US citizen irrespective of parents status) he was also 50% hindu by birth. Similarly Shah Jahan was 75% hindu and indian citizen not outsider born here. And so were many mughal rulers. Also majority did not beileve in converting non muslims forcefully to their religion else they ruled 200 years so they could easily convert majority indians if they wished like how middle east etc was converted by force.
Why do indians still consider them outsider is because they were migrants from other lands(Turkey), they used persian language to carry out court business instead of local language, they appointed majority non indians(persians, turks) in court and some rulers followed discrimination to majority religion and people hindus(like aurangzeb). So indian people could never accept them as their own people unlike some other muslim rulers especially from south india especially who used local dialect in court etc.
Regarding Jodha or Mariam uz zamani i think this romance angle is being over emphasized and Akbar was too busy in expanding his kingdom till he was 30-35 years and rarely at home to do any romance. And he had too many ladies in his harem to be loyal to a single woman.
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