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Long power cut around Jajmau

 Recently, Jajmau residents faced a long power cut. It was quite intolerable. Some residents were reportedly sheltered at their relatives' residences in nearby localities. It was definitely a harrowing experience, undoubtedly. People, anyhow, tolerated the worst situation. Such a long-duration power failure in the main localities of the Jajmau area left hapless residents, old ladies, young mothers, and others leaving their homes for relatives' homes, where power supply continued without any disruption.  A totally different scene erupted over a little longer power disruption in Jajmau. There was no clear-cut information about the restoration of the power supply. The residents honestly endured the unsatisfactory situation with the support of an inverter up to 07 a.m.  Certain families moved to their relatives' places to beat the heat.  Even the political leaders kept on asking for the exact timing of the restoration of the normal electricity supply. It was only possibl...

Timurid or Mogul


Should we read about all the historical instances or even try to learn history if the context stands to be ignored? 

A logical context relatively is supposed to create perspectives through the region of the environment and of course the witnesses.

The Mughals did not really call themselves as Timurids. They referred to their own dynasty as Gurkaniyan. 

Terms like Timurid and Gurkani are used by historians when referring to the House of Timur. Gurkani is the Latin take on the word.  

The Mughals stressed their Timurid descent and not their Mongol descendants. This is taken up because Changiz Khan's memory was said to have been linked with the massacre of innumerable people.

They prided themselves on the fact that Timur had captured Delhi in 1398.

Babarnama stands apart as the testimony of this very debatable matter. 

It all begins with the name itself. They have always been addressed as Mughals, but did they ever address themselves as so?  

In the Turkish autobiography Babarnama, Babur tried to ensure a distinction between Timuri and Moghal. 

He founded a Taimuri Gūrkāniyān Sultanate historically. 

Babur has according to historians used terms like ‘Mughal, Moghal, and Mogal’ above 400 times in the Babarnama, thereby specifying an apparent distinction. 

Does he not keep the worst opinion of the Mughal clan factually? 

Timur was in the tenth generation while Chengis was in the fifth generation. 

Babur’s ancestors were differentiated from the classical Mongols as they were oriented and tilted towards Persian rather than the Turkish-Mongol culture, as stated. 

British historian John Joseph Saunders writes that Timur was the product of an Islamised and Iranian society and not steppe nomadic Mongols.


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