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How Nehru Portrayed Muhammad Ghori: Darkest Defeat Became ‘Historical Progress’-II

This article examines How Nehru Portrayed Muhammad Ghori by analyzing the narrative techniques used to transform India’s most consequential military defeat into “historical progress.” By tracing linguistic minimization, symbolic erasure, and euphemistic framing, it explains how the civilizational rupture at Tarain was rendered historically weightless, shaping generations of misunderstanding about conquest, sovereignty, and long-term consequences.