This story of a "Hindu woman tying a Rakhi to Mughal king" is totally FAKE.

It is far from truth and inconsistent with real history . It is a fraudulent myth propagated by Mughal mythologists suffering from Secularitis

Thread (1/n) https://twitter.com/iamrana/status/1290183338603368450
First of all, this article gets even the basic Mughal timeline WRONG. It claims Bahadur Shah I ascended the Mughal throne in 1702.

But the fact is that Aurangzeb was the emperor in 1702. Bahadur Shah I ascended the throne only in 1707. (2/n)
This article claims a Hindu woman named "Ram Kumari" and her family tied Rakhi every year to Mughal emperors for almost 100 years.

Total secularist Utopia. But how true is the story? (3/n)
This "Ram Kumari" is purely MYTHICAL, not known to contemporary history. She DOES NOT EXIST in a single contemporary record. She is NOT KNOWN from any document of Mughal era. (4/n)
On first examination, we find that the story is totally FALSE.

It gets even the basic details WRONG.

The Mughal emperor who succeeded Alamgiri II was Shahjahan III and NOT Shah Alam II as FALSELY claimed in this article(5/n)
It was NOT wazir Imad Ul Mulk who tempted the emperor to visit the Sufi even if he might have ultimately planned the murder.

It was Zafarullah Khan who tempted the emperor to visit the Sufi (6/n)
This article claims that a Brahmin woman Ram Kumari found the dead body of the emperor while going to Yamuna for her morning Puja & mourned for the dead Mughal emperor.

This is IMPOSSIBLE.

The Emperor was murdered in the afternoon and buried at midnight. How corpse in morning?
When Alamgir II was been murdered, Shah Alam II had been declared a rebel and expelled out of kingdom. He was living in the east

Infact Shah Alam II did not even know of Alamgir II's murder. He received this news almost a month after the event, when he was a refugee in Bihar
Fact: Shah Alam was in Bihar. He did not know of Alamgir II's murder. He was NOT the next Emperor

Fake secular myth: Shah Alam in Delhi. He is the next king. And imaginary Rakhi stories
Reiterating. This entire story is purely MYTHICAL.

It is not known to contemporary history.

It is NOT MENTIONED in a single contemporary record.

It is NOT KNOWN from any document of Mughal era.

It is inconsistent with ACTUAL historical records
Oops. No Gangi Jamuni Tehzeeb for me
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