True but it was still on the periphery of their Empire rather than the nerve center. I've obviously never been to Lahore but have heard it is replete with Mughal architecture - is there any other big city besides Lahore which was also a major Mughal town?
I've heard of the Mughal fixation of certain Pakistanis but they even want to appropriate Tipu Sultan? Considering he was an ally of Napoleon - we should be thankful some Pakistanis have not yet tried to appropriate the legacy of Napoleon yet.
Lahore was a major city. Keep in mind, for many of these Islamic empires Lahore was the Winter capital, and sometimes even the capital (usually for brief periods of time though).
Hmm I'm not too sure, I know they have structures scattered everywhere though. They did create a lot of cities/towns/districts throughout Pakistan though. For example, my fathers town was founded by Aurangzeb.
Tipu Sultans heritage is different depending on who you ask. Different reports give different things. I'm not sure how much credibility this whole Jappa story has to it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.
Tipu Sultan has always been loved by Pakistanis, as he was a brave Muslim ruler of Hindustan.
Rich coming from a Hindustani, you guys change history to no end, denying the Indo - Aryan migrations, claiming that Pakistanis are the product of Muslim rape, denying the fact that we produced IVC, etc.
Anyway, I've only seen this Tipu was a Jappa claim on one other place. Facebook. Literally nobody believes in it so calm down.
Tipu Sultan has as much to do with Pakistan as Sheikh Hasina or Ashraf Ghani.
Let's not go that far. Pakistan was conceived as a state for Muslims of Hindustan. Any powerful Muslim rulers of Hindustan prior to Pakistan's creation would therefore have everything to do with Pakistan in my opinion, especially someone such as Tipu who spoke the same language as us (Urdu), and promoted it across his Kingdom.
The proof is in England and Portugal the original text resides there. But why do you think those idiots have Tipus pic on their entire page. They are the ancestors of them I know it I have read it in a book from 1897.
That book should be on the internet then. If you can find it that would be swell. If not, I'll take your claim with a bit of salt.
Those dynasties were practicing apartheid system. They remained foreigners because they never made the local population a part of the power structure. Only the Rajputs become collaborators by practicing marriages of convenience. Then again , were any Mughal daughter got married with a Rajput ? None of the local languages including Punjabi or Hindustani became the official language of the empire. It was rather a foreign language called farsi. The House language remained mostly native Chagatai during the mogul era.
Look at the bureaucracies of those dynasties. How many Punjabi muslims were recruited as general and governor or any other high posts over the period of a thousand year for the sultani and and Mogul dynasties ? None.
I am using Punjabis as just an example because they were living very close to center of power during these dynasties. British did mich better job in integrating local populations. They also built infrastructures and Universities as well as local based bureaucracy. That was also why punjabis were right to largely oppose the sepoy revolt in 1857.
Those dynasties remained foreigners until they disappeared in oblivion. This is the bitter truth.
Wrong. Locals (even Hindus) got pretty good positions and were praised for their assistance, as explained in earlier posts. Also, many of these rulers were descended from locals (not just Rajputs), and the people of these empires did settle down and intermarry with the local population, as also explained earlier.
They invented the current language of Pakistan (Urdu).
The British Empire viewed us all as either weak people to be used as cheap labour, or militarised tribals to be used as cannon fodder (depending on where you came from). They were not good at all.