Setara bibi under the lamp post - Literature - observerbd.com : The glittering city aroundLife is rich with red, blue light of neonWide sky over the headPieces of moonlight, scatteredAnd in that splashed pieces of meteorThose are taken by the scientists of NASASo height the civilization reachesThis city is the flow of happiness nowSome men like us pass the wayWith frustration
In
1526 Babur defeated the last Lodi Sultane Ibrahim Lodi in the Battle
of Panipath1 and founded the rule of Great Mughal Emperors
(April 21, 1526 - June 20, 1858). Though it was not an achievement for Muslims
in the sense of conquest but was a mere change in the question of ruling. The
great six Mughal rulers ruled an empire which exceeded the area of many of the
ancient states. Though Babur had a short lived reign, died on December 26,
1530, actually his role as a founder was unparallel.
Humayun2,
the dearest son of Babur, ascended to the power on December 26, 1530, after the
death of the great founder of the Mughal Empire. His reign was interrupted by Sher
Shah Suri3 in 1540 and he regained it 1555 some days before
his death in 1556.
Humayun’s
thirteen years old son Akbar4 ascended to the
monarch after his death from falling from the stairs of his library. Akbar
ruled about half a century and concluded as Akbar the great in history. During
his reign he introduced Din-i-Ilahi5 and Ain-i-Akbari6
was compiled by Abul Fazal7.
Jahangir, the prince of Akbar from a
Rajput princess from Amber8, reigned from 15
October 1605 – 8 November 1627 after the death of his great father Akber the
great. Jahangir loved his prince Khurram later Shahjahan most and kept him busy
in various operations in Bengal and Kashmir. His wife Noor Jehan9
had a worldwide fame for her beauty.
Shahjahan10, the prince
of builders, took power on 8 November 1627. He reigned till 2 August 1658 but
died on 22 January 1666 at the age of 74. He built the Taj Mehel11
after the name of his wife Arjuman Banu widely known as Mumtaj Mehel12,
Red
fort of Delhi13, Delhi Jama Masjid14 and
many other architectural buildings. In his last years of life he was confined
at Agra fort near Taj Mehel where his beloved wife was rested.
Aurangzeb15, the last of
the great Mughal Emperors, took the power on 31 July 1658 and remained as a
monarch till his death on 3 March 1707. Virtually, at the time of his death the
curtain of the Mughal Empire was shattered down though it survived till the
exile of its last titular Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar16 on 7
November 1862. Aurangzeb was wrongly depicted as an aggressive Emperor by most
of the jealous Hindu historians. But the reality was that he was a pious man
and kind to the people of all the religions of his empire. He granted many
estates to the welfare of the holy places of different religions. He cut short
many types of tax burden which deteriorated the significant revenue income.
Actually, he was such a great man for whom any kind of sin was improbable. He
lived his life by copying the holy Quran and sewing the cap. Beyond all the
debate, he was somehow correctly portrayed somewhere by the famous historian Sir
Jadhu Nath Sarker17.
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