[Lejes Rimul]

Your point is taken as well.

Certainly, one should avoid inferring from what I said that all Indian notables spoke Farsi, but the fact does remain that it was one of the court languages, and many educated Moghuls prided themselves on their ability to compose Farsi poetry, etc. It's similar to how, until about a century ago, few Western elites would consider themselves truly educated until they had at least some familiarity with Greek and Roman.

The crux of my comment was that there are certain cultural links between the two nations that aren't easily grasped simply by a surface analysis of "Iran is Muslim and Persian, India is Hindu and Indian."

[CarrotAndStick]

Exactly. The word 'Iran' itself is another for 'Aryan', which is a Sanskrit word. A lot of people fail to see that Iran isn't an Arab nation. And a lot more are unaware how unpopular the mad mullahs really are in Iran itself, among the youth of Iran. In fact, many are