Farooqui, Amar
Mughals as ‘foreigners’ and the end of the dynasty
- Social scientist
- 53(11-12), Nov-Dec, 2025: p.41-50
The notion that INDIA endured several centuries of ‘foreign’ rule during the medieval period was firmly planted by colonial administrators and ideologues in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Colonial ideologues sought to conceal the intrinsic foreignness sof British rule by labeling their immediate predecessors, the Mughals as foreigners. –Reproduced