Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری
Indo-Islamic Anglophile with a passion for History, Politics and Wildlife. Conservative. Khazręj. Ganga-Jamuni Mleccha. Author of 2.🇵🇸 @Oldstoic @LSEalumni.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗮 (𝐴𝑦𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑦𝑎-𝑖 𝐾𝑒𝑏𝑖𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑖-𝑖 Ş𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖): One consistent trait common to all ethno-fascist narratives is an aversion to historical facts and scholarship, in a hur...
𝗔 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: In ancient India, temples and other sacred sites like vihāras had a deep association with the personal power and sovereignty of individual rulers. Before the...
The entire narrative of attacks on pilgrims in Mewat yesterday, is a fiction and fabrication spun by RSS affiliates; the VHP, Bajrang Dal, Godi Media and social-media influencers t...
A frequent and recently even more strident assessment of Mughal historical trajectories places Rājput compliance and partnership with Mughal rule as a pre-requisite to the #Timurid...
Odd to see a section of opinion attack Mirza Raja Mān Singh over his leadership of the Mughal conquest of Orissa (1591-1592). The campaign was a consequence of local rulers struggl...
This toady seeks to portray Jauhar - an act of self-sacrifice by women, in the face of certain defeat, to save collective honour - as an act committed only in the face of Islamic i...
In the post-truth age, when the study of history faces stiff competition from a reckless #Mythistory, and facts are not even referred to, students and scholars must counter this tr...
RW folk and a gamut of Hindutva pamphleteers relentlessly quote the late #American historian Will Durant - often erroneously - to supplement their regular #Islamophobic feed and no...
Today marks the 495th anniversary of the seminal Battle of Khanua fought between the Timurid-Mughals led by Zaheer-ud Din Mohammad Babur and the Rajput-Meo-Afghan Confederacy led b...