So, in effect what you're saying is that you financed Chattrapati Shivaji's campaigns and without your material and men, he wouldn't be able to achieve much.
Let's examine your statement in detail. The Marathas plundered Gujarat principally and Surat particularly because it was a Mughal province and it's principal trading posts. But the traders themselves were overwhelmingly Hindu or native Gujaratis to be precise - the Sarafs, the Jains, the Kutchis, etc. The very people who sheltered your ancestors once they took flight from Persia. Are you saying you supported Shivaji's campaign against your own brothers in Gujarat in spite of their ancestors showing yours a bowl filled to the brim with milk and you conveniently brought out the sugar and dissolved it in. This is a double whammy. I've not known a more mercantilist or mercenary ethno liguistic community than the Gujaratis and one of the rare occasions they do something out of humanity, is this how you repay them? Sounds like a pattern. I'd get to it later.
Yes. I'm actually comparing the riches the Parsi community had in the 16 th & 17th century to that of the local Muslims in Konkan & western Maharashtra apart from the number of men they've contributed to the cause. Since you claim all this is well documented, I assume providing the necessary evidence shouldn't be a problem to shut me up.
So you did it to prove a point to yourself. That what happened in Nehevand was a blip in the glorious 3000 year old history of the dickraaa. Sounds fair and believable.
Aah! That seems to have triggered something deep within didn't it? I was actually going to bring up cases of the cultivation of opium monopolised by the Jews & Dickraas under the Brits, like JJ Jeejebhoy and JRD Tata's father specifically amongst others whose ill gotten wealth bailed the Tata group on in dire days, but I won't.
Which brings me to an important point, the areas where opium was cultivated were Malwa, UP, Bihar and Bengal. You didn't say you had generations old inherited property there did you?
From dumping your fellow Gujjus and latching on to the Marathas and dumping them for the British. Seems like a pattern to me. I'd understand if you don't see things that way. So would everyone else here.
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