To the gentlemen trying to own onto India's history as either This side's or that side.Let me say this:
before the Lucknow pact you were the same people with a common history, Religion was the major reason for division and rightly so.
But to think that only the Indian has right over Asoka or only the Pakistani has a right over Aurangzeb is wrong. These people were from amongst you, and most of India in their times still took them as their kings. most of those people are your ancestors. Even the Pathans who have more in common with Afghans still were culturally influenced by those from Bengal. Islam did not properly arrive in India till the 700 AD's and even then, most if not all Indians then converted and even now many of the Muslims on both sides are from the lineage of converts.Many people trace their lineage back to the prophet with pride through middle eastern Sufi and orthodox preachers but fail to see that they too converted people through which many Muslims in India and Pakistan are descended from. So while the average Subcontinent Muslim may ignore it, Asoka was as much the king of his genetic forefathers as it was of someone in Mumbai. The same goes for the average Hindu who would have genetic forefathers serving in Akbar or Sher Shah Suri's army.
Religious history which involves the all Muslims or Hindu's and does not allow Pakistani's to lay claim to Khalid bin Waleed's military prowess as part of their hereditary inheritance. Nor should it force the Indian's to disown Tipu Sultan as somebody who does not deserve recognition in the history of India as somebody who resisted an Invader to the end for his land which was Mysore.
In a nutshell, The history of India is nobody property which includes the Indus valley civilization and the Aryan Invaders..to Ranjit Singh and The first world war where Indians died for the British in the trenched of Europe
