We need to revisit these rosy pictures of a Muslim-outsider bigot establishing a rule and us giving him the title of ‘the Great’. This narrative of Akbar, the great, must be unwired and unmasked Rajiv Tuli writes.
A team of archaeologists found an early “Mauryan” Buddhist temple in the ancient Pakistani city of Barikot, with two older Buddhist structures below it.
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Modern-day India and Pakistan only came into being in 1947 once they gained independence. Before the British came to the subcontinent, it had been ruled by different dynasties over the last several thousand years.