Where are the Great Mughals?
http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/aug/30spec3.htm
The article made me think as to why Mughals after their 200 years of misrule and plunder are still called GREAT. Don’t believe me, here are the facts which we tend to ignore. Let us start from the their founder-:
BABAR-: The first GREAT mughal who is known to be a great lover of arts and architecture. Then why did he break the magnificient Ram Mandir at Ayodhya.Babar was also of the habit of butchering the conquered people and making a hill of their heads, same habit of his great ancestors GENGHIS KHAN & TAMERLANE. How can a descendant of such tyrants be a great ruler?. All these rumours of greatness, seem to emanate from a diary which BABUR , himself wrote.

Humayun’s rule was not a prominent one, but coming to the most famous of them-:

AKBAR-: This great Din-e-Elahi founder buthcered around 40,000 rajputs after his victory at Chittorgarh. His lecherous attitude is famous because of Meena bazaar & harem of 5000 women. The greatness of Akbar rests upon a diary Aine-e-Akbari which was written by one of his courtiers Abul Fazal, whom many historians call as useless sychophant. He was a illiterate and fond of wine and women, still India calls him 'the Great.' Actually Rana Pratap was GREAT who took up the task of opposing Akbar and destroyed his rule in much of Mewar.

SHAHJAHAN:Famous for his Taj Mahal, which till now remains controversial as Hindu temple. The author has himself seen that Taj Mahal carries a kalash & srifal (coconut) in place of moon & star (islamic symbol) at it's top. Only a child will beleive that Shah was so secular that he installed a hindu symbol on the tomb. He fought 48 battles in his 20 yrs of reign, mostly for loot & plunder. The country reeled under severe drought and famines, Deccan which he desperately wanted to conquer is a testimony of that.

AURANGZEB: Everybody is aware of the intolerance and cruelty his reign unleashed on the populace and ultimatelt led to downfall of Mughal empire, which the Marathas rightly replaced and not the British as reported.