Saw this maddening poster in a decolonization group I am part of and almost immediately, my mind made the association with what is often said about the Mughals.

Colonizers everywhere are alike.

#decolonize #stopcolonizing #stopdefendingcolonization
“Mughals were born in India so they were Indian” never mind that they colonized your people, enslaved you and sold you like chattle, abducted and raped your women&children, mass murdered your men, razed your temples to ground. But hey, they gave you pretty things & “civilization”
This is also why British love the Mughals so much and this is why colonial apologists like William Darlymple still create a ruckus and are so vehemently insistent on saying that Mughal history is Indian history.
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