The process has been in progress for decades since Independence. The process was accelerated since the 1980s. It's more like the cultural shift is now complete.
A roll back is now impossible.
As Ruchir Sharma points out [1], India is a postcolonial society which is unlike any other. We have our own, unique historical contexts, our own indigenous philosophies and value systems, and are bound together by a shared colonial trauma. And despite the hollowing out of our economy and society during centuries of imperialism, we can say with pride that our people are trying to improve their lives the best way they know how - seeking dignity, not charity, seeking empathy, not sympathy, and seeking equality, not revenge.
It is going to be very exciting to see how the Hindu society evolves over the next century. Knowledge is our currency and we will flourish in this information age.
[1] https://swarajyamag.com/politics/what-the-media-gets-wrong-a...
The hindus didn't just survive under Muslim rule, they flourished.
Knowledge is definitely not the currency in India today. The government has set aside half a billion dollars for a pseudoscience ministry called Ayush. Pseudo physicians will now conduct surgery. Research institutes are being compelled to research the therapeutic benefits of cow piss. High school students are being taught pseudoscience- Indian cow milk is superior to Jersey cows milk because it contains gold!!
From your comments itself, it is obvious that India is moving towards ethnocentrism and you are excited about it. This we can both agree upon.
Actually its more like 25%. It was also a manufacturing super power.
Under his reign, India surpassed Qing China to become the world's largest economy and biggest manufacturing power, worth nearly a quarter of global GDP and more than the entirety of Western Europe, and its largest and wealthiest subdivision, the Bengal Subah,[15] signaled the proto-industrialization.
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who ruled over almost the entire Indian subcontinent for a period of 49 years.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurangzeb
The metrics and history is clear, the heart burn is more on the line of him being Muslim. You don't want your biggest object of hate to be the most successful model/person you ever had in all your history.
>>India is moving towards ethnocentrism and you are excited about it.
Even on those line some one like Babur is more closer genetically and culturally(belligerent conquerers from Central Asian Steppes) to the Vedic Heroes than the boiled rice eaters we Indians are today.
It's one of those grand Ironies staring us in our face.
Now coming to your point about economy during Mughal period, you just need to check the book ‘The Cambridge Economic History of India 1200-1750’, which documents the reality of Mughal Manasabdari system.[1]
But all this perceived greatness of Mughal system can be challenged by the simple assertion that during the ~300 year rule, no a single university or centre of higher education was created by them. The only schools that flourished during that time were down south outside their realm.
[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/prathgodbole/status/1261356094087...