Controversial inscription about Maharaja Jai Singh in Samarkand

Jaipur: The former Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, who settled the city of Jaipur, is described as a servant of Babur’s descendants in an inscription in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. While Babur has been praised in the inscription, derogatory facts were written about Maharaja Jai Singh. After the photos of the inscription went viral, there has been an opposition on social media. The matter gains significance as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar are attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, people on social media have appealed to the PM and the Minister to get the inscription removed.

TRS leader Kalvakuntala Kavita, MLC from Nizamabad and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, has written to S Jaishankar demanding its opposition. 
The inscription on Samarkand reads: “Mirza Ulugh Beg, an ancestor of Mirza Babur, who ruled India during the 17th–18th centuries, had a keen interest in mathematics, architecture and astronomy. He paid special attention to them. In the 18th century, Muhammad Shah (1719– 1748), a descendant of Babur, ordered his servant Sawai Jai Singh to build observatories in Jaipur, Banaras and Delhi.” The instruments of Samarkand Observatory have been copied in the observatories here.