Well returning after really long time...But I guess the blame goes to William Darymple who kept me busy so long with his book " Last Mughal". It was nice to dream the 1800's India with the Mughals and their royal life style and try to be a part of them.

The book has a lot of surprises for a person like me who has bad idea of "History". It was unbelievable to know that Mr.Octerlony one of the agents to early India had a tomb with 4 minarets on the side (symbolyzing Christain Tomb and Muslim minarets) he was married to a Mughal Begum afterall. And he produced a legacy of White Mughals( long forgotten though).

Indian culture has experienced invasion from many culture. Mughals almost hijacked Indian culture. To appreciate this, go anywhere in India you will always find Mughal monuments as the heritage. They were the most recent rulers of India after them British stepped in. There is though a striking difference between Mughal rule and British rule. Mughals ruled the country like their own native and British ruled it like a foreign land. That’s the reason; we consider Mughal monuments as the part of the heritage.

Earlier the British, deployed to India, were young and our cultural influence was so strong that they happily shed their Shirt and trouser for Hindustani pyjama and kurta but the later recruits were older in age, sometimes even widower, so strong were their cultural bias to India that they wanted to change our entire culture and then started the long row of conversion of faith and division in the society based on faith. That’s what every ruler wants though, and has been also done by the Mughal rulers but they used the money they earned from their estate into it again but British took it back with them. They were traders after all, they didn’t want to rule, they wanted to trade and make money.
Modern Indian culture is a unique mix of Muslim and Christian culture. All the cultures have left their footprints, in the form of some ritual in our culture