Religious Policy Transformation in India's Political and Human Geography - Indian Gurkhans from Tolerance to Prejudice

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Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

Authors

Mohammad Mehraein ¹

Amir Teymour Rafiei ²

Mohammad Nabi Salim ³

¹ PhD Student in Islamic History, Department of History, Mahallat Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahallat, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of History,, Mahallat Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahallat, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of History,, Shahroud Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahroud , Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2021.69034.1022

Abstract

India's human geography, due to its ethnic diversity and religious diversity, has provided a fertile ground for the country's political and social challenges. Since India ruled with Muslim rulers for about six hundred years, prudent religious policy was essential for political stability and cohesion. The Gurkhanid rule, which rules over a large part of the Indian subcontinent, is based on religious tolerance of Buddhist followers. , Hindus and Sikhs ruled their territory and even Akbarshah tried to minimize the challenges by proposing the unity of religions; But Aurangzeb's turn to bigotry and strict religious policy dealt a major blow to the foundations of the Gurkhani empire.
Using a descriptive research method, this study answers the question of why the policy of religious tolerance was abandoned and what was the result, despite Gurkhanian understanding of the quality of India's human and political geography? Studies show that in addition to the effective role of Akbarshah's successors, especially Aurangzeb, in prioritizing a religion and avoiding religious tolerance, the emergence of Maharaja's independence tendencies and the gradual transformation of Hindu ethnic dispersion led to the abolition of tolerance, increasing dissatisfaction And weakened the foundations of the Gurkhanids

Keywords

Human Geography

India

Gurkhanids

Religious Politics

17th and 18th Centuries

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