Virendra
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Re: Did Shah Jahan chop off the hands of those who built the Taj mahal
Otherwise why would the persian chroniclers write the latter as Mughal and not as Turks?
I think the Mongols were somehow considered racially or symbolically superior over the real early Mughals at that time.MONGOLS are not the same as MUGHALS.
Mughals were mostly of Turkic descent, and only their leaders had intermarried with the Mongol conquerers of Central Asia. The Mughals adopted some of the fighting techniques of Mongols, but at heart they were Turks, and always fanatical Muslims which the early Mongols were not.
Otherwise why would the persian chroniclers write the latter as Mughal and not as Turks?