For the bold part, I would have to go back to the History when Aurangzeb exploited and discriminated Hindus, Invaders Like Mauhammad Ghauri, including Mughals etc, all these people did not have a very good impression in the hearts of Natives. You should also consider that part. Fearing the Islamic leadership would not be accepted by Hindus after what their Great Grandparents had gone through, and why should they? If you could justify me this, I would be ready to accept Islam.
Coming to Gujarat Riots and etc and all, they were all the repercussions what the Minority tried to achieve through Violence in their dominating area in India. You should be also aware of how those riots started.
So there is indeed no comparison and you cannot expect a box of sugar If you gift poison to the latter. Still in India the people accept each other, WE have Public Holiday for EID, DiWALI, GURU NANAK Birthday, Mahavir Jayanti , Christmas, and Buddh Purnima. Do you have such in Pakistan?
I couldn't disagree more with this post, both with its contents and its tone.
Niaz was precisely right in pointing to the beginnings of religious exclusivity in politics. Perhaps due to politeness, he did not mention that Savarkar was the first person to articulate that theory that we all love to hate, the Two Nation Theory.
Much, not all, written about Aurangzeb is myth; he was obstinate, bigoted and implacable in his persecution of those he felt to be enemies of Mughal reign, specifically, his reign, but much of the malevolent aura around him is due to a cottage industry devoted to producing inchoate, unsubstantiated comments about how terrible he was. Three facts seem to have contributed to popular aversion to him: his apparent contrast to his benign and broadminded predecessors; his persecution of his brothers and father; his persecution of the personification of Hindu resurgence, of Hindu Pad Padshahi, Shivaji. Obviously, this ignores substance and leans heavily on symbolism.
For one, after the open-minded reign of Akbar, first, Jehangir, then, more than he, Shah Jahangir, were increasingly rigid and unbending on issues of religious tolerance. Before drawing our breath in sharply, it would well to remember that both princes came to the throne with the support of powerful factions in court. In that court, there was an increasingly weaker constituency for religious toleration.
That also gives us clues to his cruelty to his brothers and father; that's how things were. The first Mughal actually asked his son to take a lenient view of his brothers, even if they proved unreliable or even hostile. They were unreliable and treacherous and poor Humayun had a very difficult time with his brothers. The trend continued, through every reign, ambitious young princes challenging ea ch other for the throne, and taking no prisoners.
Finally, the great Maratha was actually housed as a great courtier should have been, from all accounts. He was under strict guard; his return to a career of guerrilla resistance to the Mughal state was unthinkable. But he was not in prison, he was not physically in danger, and he was not executed out of hand to start with.
We could go on, but this was a most unappealing presentation of a case, whatever the case was.