Shivaji ; Maharana Pratap ; Ranjeet Singh are NATIONAL LEADERS ;Akbar And Tipu Sultan are NOT

[dadeechi]

Muslims and Hindus have different heroes of their own religion. This is not opinion but fact. The best idea is to preserve each history and each religions people should be given responsibility to protect and promote their cultural/religious artifacts. Nothing should be imposed on the other. Let Hindus call Tipu a villain. He is our hero and their villain very much like Rana Sanga and Maharana Pratap are hindu heroes. The idea of history, especially religious is that people view it with their own different eyes and colour history with their own perception. Freedom to believe what they want is a crux of the entire debate.

It doesn't affect us the slightest if Tipu is called a villain. Similarly it should not affect the Hindus if the Pala, Chalukya and other Indian dynasties are seen negatively by muslims. The problem arises from our refusal to accept these differences in followers of religions different thoughts.

A tyrant is tyrant irrespective of the religion.

When Hindus say Aurangzeb was a tyrant it is because of his policies not because he belonged to a certain Religion.

If you say Maharana Pratap was a villain/tyrant, you should substantiate it.

 

[vayuputhra]

[QUOa"Point_4590, post: 7870035, member: 173359"]He claimed Arab ancestory Quraish the tribe of Islamic prophet but seeing the potrait of Tipu he looks like a local convert.[/QUOTE]
You are right, he was a local, his father worked as horse keeper of wodeyar kings of Mysore, he was pitch black, unlike he was portrayed in the serial.

 

[asad71]

Queen Victoria, Lord Clive, Duke of Wellington, Maj Hudson and such killers and conspirators who had kept Hindustan enslaved for 200 years - and still does in many sense were the heroes of Hindus.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Muslims and Hindus have different heroes of their own religion. This is not opinion but fact. The best idea is to preserve each history and each religions people should be given responsibility to protect and promote their cultural/religious artifacts. Nothing should be imposed on the other. Let Hindus call Tipu a villain. He is our hero and their villain very much like Rana Sanga and Maharana Pratap are hindu heroes. The idea of history, especially religious is that people view it with their own different eyes and colour history with their own perception. Freedom to believe what they want is a crux of the entire debate.

It doesn't affect us the slightest if Tipu is called a villain. Similarly it should not affect the Hindus if the Pala, Chalukya and other Indian dynasties are seen negatively by muslims. The problem arises from our refusal to accept these differences in followers of religions different thoughts.

That would not wash in Bengal. The Bara Bhuiyan were from both religions.