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A frightful thought germinated: target the Muslim as the ‘Other’ to affect greater Hindu consolidation.
Their faith was Islam but the culture they exuded had strands in it which were Hindu, not in a religious sense but in its broader cultural connotations.
selective amnesia began to colour the discourse. Babur founded an empire after defeating the Pathan ruler of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodhi, in the first battle of Panipat in 1526. It was a Muslim–Muslim conflict. But in the popular imagination it has been allowed to persist as a Hindu–Muslim conflict.
