"Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while announcing the new museum in Agra raised a pertinent question about the legacy of Moghuls and took a stand that the symbols of colonialism would not have any place in Uttar Pradesh. As expected, the secular intellectuals were taken aback. They have problems with naming the museum with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, as invoking the idea of ‘Hindavi Swarajya’ itself has been a communal idea for them. As usual with their skewed sense of history based on colonial myths, they started giving citations about the heroics of the Mughal era from their own sources, claiming them to be the heritage of Bharat. This episode has allowed us to look at our history with an open mind and historical documents."
# OPINION : Tuesday, September 29, 2020. 8:00. PM. - 2254. ##1. Yogi Adityanath is Right ‘’How can Mughals be our hero?” : 29-Sep-2020 : Nikhil Yadav : Organiser : Media Report. What’s in a name? Asked William Shakespeare. Name and form are ,however interrelated; if I say Banana, you can’t think of coconut. Name is especially important in the case of an individual. An individual's name reflects his culture, tradition, and values. Recently, Mughal Museum in Agra has been named after Great Maratha King Maharaja Chhatrapati Shivaji and as the expected huge debate has started and certainly lost journalists trying to find their voice in the din. Why the name is important if that’s the question then given the free run of the secular historians right from the dawn of India’s independence, made us almost forget our own history, our ancestry, our tradition, and our culture. We have been served cooked up and selective history to build a narrative that would in turn yield political mi
