Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India c6.s2.75

c6.s2.75

According to him, "The Wasiatnama was not written by Babur, but by a group of Muslims during the Khilafat movement. They had realised that if the Khilafat movement was to succeed, it was possible only through the cooperation and participation of Hindus. Therefore, in December 1919 the Muslim League passed a resolution putting a ban on the slaughter of cows." Babur's supposed exhortation not to destroy shrines of peoples of other faiths, says Varma, also coincides with the attempt by the League at Hindu-Muslim cooperation during the Khilafat agitation. "This belief becomes amply clear from its motives - that the Will was written by interested Muslims in 1919 and not by Babur in 1529. It was placed in Sultania State Library of Bhopal where its secrecy and security could be ensured. But when the Khalifa in Turkey was removed and there the institution of Khilafat was abolished [on 3 March 1924], there was no sense in preserving the document any more. That is why this forged and supposed (jali aur farzi) Wasiatnama was removed from the Bhopal library as secretly as it was placed there."