India is cursed with such beaureucrats who manage to enjoy high offices without having any knowledge of basic geography.
That Sherwan is in Pakistan and not Afghanistan will be known to a fifth standard enthusiast student of Indian georgraphy but not these fraudulent babus
That Sherwan is in Pakistan and not Afghanistan will be known to a fifth standard enthusiast student of Indian georgraphy but not these fraudulent babus
Fake claim 2: "Shaikh Sadruddin was born in Sherwan"
Fact: Shaikh Sadruddin was NOT born in Sherwan. He was from Daraban. Check Hayat-i-Afghani by Muhammad Hayat Khan or "History of Ruling Family of Sheikh Sadruddin" by A Khan
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Fact: Shaikh Sadruddin was NOT born in Sherwan. He was from Daraban. Check Hayat-i-Afghani by Muhammad Hayat Khan or "History of Ruling Family of Sheikh Sadruddin" by A Khan
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Even Hayat Lodhi clearly attests that Shaikh Sadruddin AKA Haider Shaikh came from Daraban, and not from Sherwan as @acjoshi falsely claimed. Translation of the snippet has been provided by Anna Bigelow
2 false claims in the very first twet. Let us move on to the next tweet
2 false claims in the very first twet. Let us move on to the next tweet
False claim 3: "Maler Kotla was named after earlier villages of Maler and Kotla"
Fact: This Babu does not even know basic etymology. Kotla means "fortess". Hence, we have "Feroz Shah Kotla", "Kotla Bahadur Nehar" etc. Kotla is fortress and NOT "Village"
Fact: This Babu does not even know basic etymology. Kotla means "fortess". Hence, we have "Feroz Shah Kotla", "Kotla Bahadur Nehar" etc. Kotla is fortress and NOT "Village"
To further expose this item @acjoshi, I quote the primary source Hayat Lodhi.which clearly says "Maler was a name given by Haider shaikh himself" and it wasnt "named after earlier villages Maler and Kotla" as the item falsely claimed.
Kotla was the fortress built around Maler.
Kotla was the fortress built around Maler.
Kotla was NOT "earlier village" as @acjoshi falsely claimed. Kotla came into being when a descendant of Haider Shaikh received permission from Aurangzeb to build a fortification around city.
Kotla means fortress and NOT "earlier village"
Etymology 101 for item Joshi
Kotla means fortress and NOT "earlier village"
Etymology 101 for item Joshi
Cunningly, @acjoshi sings praises of Malerkotla Nawab and boasts of favour to Guru Gobind Singh, and how Sikhs are eternally grateful to them.
In this one sided narrative, he leaves out many inconvenient facts. He leaves out that Malerkotla Nawab abducted women of Guru's family
In this one sided narrative, he leaves out many inconvenient facts. He leaves out that Malerkotla Nawab abducted women of Guru's family
Malerkotla Nawab abducted a woman attached to the house of Guru Gobind Singh named Anoop Kaur (she was also mentioned in Charitropakhyan).
That brave woman commited sucide rather than embrace the faith of Islam. Nawab quietly buried her.
That brave woman commited sucide rather than embrace the faith of Islam. Nawab quietly buried her.
It was Banda Singh Bahadur who marched to Malerkotla, dug up Anup Kaur's grave and cremated her according to proper Sikh rites. Malerkotla Nawab was NOT "secular"
Screenshots taken from "Banda Singh Bahadur and Sikh Sovereignty (2001)" by Sikh historian Harbans Kaur Sagoo
Screenshots taken from "Banda Singh Bahadur and Sikh Sovereignty (2001)" by Sikh historian Harbans Kaur Sagoo
False claim 6 : "Sikhs always felt gratitude to Sherwanis"
Fact: When Banda Singh Bahadur Captured Malerkotla, he dug up the grave of this Sherwani Sufi Shaikh Sadruddin and set his body on fire. His tomb was dismantled and levelled up
Fact: When Banda Singh Bahadur Captured Malerkotla, he dug up the grave of this Sherwani Sufi Shaikh Sadruddin and set his body on fire. His tomb was dismantled and levelled up
When Banda Singh invaded Malerkotla, he confiscated the properties of Afghan Pathans, imposed fine on its residents and destroyed the graves of Shaikh Sadruddin and other pirs.
Snippet taken from "Sri Guru Panth Prakash" by Ratan Singh Bhangu ,a primary source for this period
Snippet taken from "Sri Guru Panth Prakash" by Ratan Singh Bhangu ,a primary source for this period
Where did @acjoshi get his false information ?
He plagiarised ALL HIS TWEETS from an entry in Sikh Wiki, without giving any credit to his source. He simply copied full sentences ad verbatim from the article in his tweet chain as found in the same order.
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He plagiarised ALL HIS TWEETS from an entry in Sikh Wiki, without giving any credit to his source. He simply copied full sentences ad verbatim from the article in his tweet chain as found in the same order.
sikhiwiki.org
"Malerkotla, once a Princely State of India and now a city and a municipal council in Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab, was named after the earlier villages of Maler and Kotla"- Sikh Wiki
EXACTLY the same. You copy-pasted it from Sikh-Wiki
EXACTLY the same. You copy-pasted it from Sikh-Wiki
"The state is said to have been settled by Kurdish Sayids who migrated to Afganistan and married into the Pathan clans. It was the two sons of one of these inter-sect marriages that produced two sons named Lodi and Sherwani"- Line 2 & 3 of SikhWiki article
He took ALL his sentences from SikhWiki article and passed it off as his original research. What this plagiarist fraud @acjoshi does not know is that Sikh Wiki is "open source" and whoever has a membership can write anything. It is worse than Wikipedia
sikhiwiki.org
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False claim 7: "There were no instances of communal violence in Malerkotla"
Fact: Eyewitnesses/ refugees from partition camps recorded instances of communal violence in Malerkotla during partition. Ian Copland notes Malerkota was comparatively better because Nawab armed citizens
Fact: Eyewitnesses/ refugees from partition camps recorded instances of communal violence in Malerkotla during partition. Ian Copland notes Malerkota was comparatively better because Nawab armed citizens
In his book "The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed", Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed from Stockholm University records incidents of communal violence in and around Malerkotla after doing extensive research
This is yet another false claim copied verbatim from Sikh Wiki
This is yet another false claim copied verbatim from Sikh Wiki
The "Sufi Sherwani Nawabs" of Malerkotla joined hands with Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali when Abdali invaded India. Abdali was the one invaded Punjab and conducted mass slaughter ("vadda ghallugara") of Sikhs and Hindus killing 20,000-40,000 people according to some estimates.
It was not far from Malerkotla that Ahmad Shah Abdali and his allies slaughtered 30,000 Sikhs in an event known in Sikh History as ("vadda ghallughara").
Malerkotla's "Sufi Sherwani Nawab" Jamal Khan himself took part in this mass massacre and died in this battle.
Malerkotla's "Sufi Sherwani Nawab" Jamal Khan himself took part in this mass massacre and died in this battle.
After a careful architectural examination of Malerkotla Dargah of our Sherwani Sufi Sadruddin, historian Anna Bigelow comes to the conclusion that the Dargah was originally not a Muslim structure. There is also a local tradition of Raja Malher Singh's Hindu capital at the site
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