History hijacked by perverse politics of bogus secularism
Thousands of people, Indians and
foreigners, Muslims and non-Muslims, visit Ajmer every day to offer a chaadar
at Dargah Sharif of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, a shrine where all are
welcome and every prayer is answered, or so the pious choose to believe. Many
stay on to visit the other antiquities of Ajmer, among them a magnificent
mosque complex which bears little or no resemblance to its name: Adhai Din Ka
Jhonpra.
Few who have seen and admired
this mosque complex would be aware of Colonel Tod’s description of it in the
first volume of Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan: “The entire façade of this
noble entrance … is covered with Arabic inscriptions … but in a small frieze
over the apex of the arch is contained an inscription in Sanskrit.” And that
oddity tells the real story of Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra.
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