Gyanpeeth Winner Bhalchandra Nemade: A big writer awarded Gyanpeeth and Sahitya Akademi Award has claimed that Akbar was not a Muslim, but a Hindu ruler. The mother of Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal, was a Hindu.
Mughal Emperor Akbar.
Mumbai: The author, who has been awarded with the most prestigious awards like Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi, has made a huge claim. Author of famous novels named ‘Kosala’ and ‘Hindu’ and promoter of desiism in Marathi criticism Bhalchandra Nemade claimed the king Akbar were Hindus. Everyone knows about Akbar’s son Salim (Jahangir) that he was the son of the emperor’s Hindu queen Jodha Bai. But this famous writer has claimed that the mother of Shah Jahan who built the Taj Mahal was also Hindu Was.
Bhalchandra Newade claims that before the arrival of Muslims in India there was neither a Muslim nor a Christian. Earlier religion was used to mean morality. People were Shaiv, Vaishnav, Shakt then. All these used to be sects. These were not called religions. The meaning of religion was taken from morality only. Bhalchandra Nemade was talking to a Marathi news channel.
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‘Iranian kings referred to Akbar as a Hindu king’
Bhalchandra Nemade said that the words of Iranian people during the time of Akbar and Shah Jahan are recorded. He used to talk about teaching a lesson to ‘Hindu Akbar’. Everyone including Akbar was called Hindu. The mother of the builder of Taj Mahal was a Hindu. All the people living around the Indus river were called Hindus. We have to accept that we all belong to the same race. We are all one.
Since then some were called Hindu, some Muslim – India became here, Pakistan there
The famous writer says that since this distinction started in the medieval period, some were called Hindu and some were called Muslim. That’s why later India was formed here and Pakistan there. That’s why the partition happened because we were divided among ourselves in the name of different religions. How bad is the economic condition of Pakistan today, still how much they spend in preparing for the war. We also have to spend many times more than that in preparing for war. It all started because of the imagination of religion. Now the concept of ‘religion’ and ‘nation’ should be destroyed. Instead, the concept of ‘morality’ and ‘country’ should be adopted. This will solve many problems.
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Source: www.tv9hindi.com”