In this article I am going to reveal the facts that
1. How Gandhi Nehru family is related to Chengizkhan and Mughals.
2. How they have adopted the name Nehru as their surname.
3. How these Kashmiri pandits converted to Islam.
How Gandhi Nehru family is related to Chengizkhan and Mughals?
I have told you already about the fact that the present day Gandhi’s are not at all related to Mahatma Gandhi and they are actually related to the emperor of Mongol Empire, the Chengizkhan.
Let me elaborate this. I think you all are aware of the Mughal dynasty that it was founded in India when Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur (who was a descendent of Chengiz Khan), hailing from Ferghana (Modern Uzbekistan), invaded parts of Northern India. Initially he undertook raids up to 1524 and had established his base camp at Peshawar. Finally in 1526 in his fifth attempt, Babur defeated the last of the Delhi Sultans, Ibrahim Shah Lodi, the ruler of Delhi, at the First Battle of Panipat. Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb Alamgir, Bahadur shah, Farrukhsiyar all are his descendents. Furrukhsiyar is the person of importance here.
Babur---Humayun---Akbar---Jahangir---Shahjahan---Aurangzeb Alamgir---Bahadur shah---Farrukhsiyar.
This Mughal king Farrukhsiyar who, on a visit to Kashmir brought Raj Kaul, a scholar of great eminence of Sanskrit and Persian, to Delhi in 1716 AD. Furrukhsiyar allotted him a fief on the shores of a canal, i.e. ‘nahar’ near the red fort, after which the family came to be known as the ‘Kaul Nahars’.
Raj Kaul was the son of the cook, Ganga Ram Brahmin’s (the infamous Gangu). He served in Guru Gobind Singh ji’s kitchen for 20 years and later betrayed them by getting Mother Gujri ji and 2 younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji captured by the Mughals. The Mughal (Vajeer Khan) not only retracted from giving the promised reward to Gangu but also took away Mother Gujri ji’s property from his possession. This same Gangu’s son Raj Kaul ran away to Kashmir in fear of the retaliation of the Sikhs. Since he was educated he was working on a government job. When the later Mughal, Farrukhsiyar came to know of the favour that Gangu did to the Mughals, he found out his family (Raj Kaul) and asked them to come back to Delhi.
This is how the family is related to Mughals.
How these Kashmiri pandits converted to Islam?
So Raj Kaul belongs to a family of Kashmiri pandits, the Ganga Ram Brahmin’s. But this Raj Kaul later converted to Islam due to the influence of Mughals.
How they have adopted the name Nehru as their surname?
Raj Kaul’s grandson is Gangadhar Nehru whose real name is Gayasuddin Ghazi. He was the City Kotwal i.e. police officer of Delhi prior to the uprising of 1857, under the Mughal rule.
(Jawaharlal Nehru's second sister Krishna Hutheesing also mentions in her memoirs that her grandfather was the city Kotwal of Delhi prior to 1857’s uprising when Bahadur Shah Zafar was still the sultan of Delhi)
So the question is why the Gayasuddin ghazi has changed his name to Gangadhar Nehru?
After capturing Delhi in 1857, in the year of the mutiny, the British were slaughtering all Mughals everywhere. The British made a thorough search and killed every Mughal so that there would be no future claimant to the throne of Delhi. The Hindus on the other hand were not targeted by the British unless isolated Hindus were found to be siding with the Mughals, due to past associations. Therefore, it became customary for many Mohammedans to adopt Hindu names. So, the man Ghiyasuddin Ghazi (the word means kafir-killer) adopted a Hindu name Gangadhar Nehru and thus saved his life by the subterfuge. Ghiyasuddin Ghazi apparently used to reside on the bank of a canal (or Nahar) near the Red Fort as I have already told you earlier. Thus, he adopted the name ‘Nehru’ as the family name. Throughout the world, we do not find any descendant other than that of Gangadhar, having the surname Nehru.
City Kotwal was an important post like today’s Commissioner of Police. It appears from Mughal records that there was no Hindu Kotwal employed. It was extremely unlikely for a Hindu to be hired for that post. Compulsorily only Mohammedans of foreign ancestry were hired for such important posts.
You can find the fact that how this family adopted the name Gandhi in my next article. Keep reading...
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