Aurangzeb Alamgir Did the Mughal emperors who ruled India for 49 times really detest Hindus?
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This composition was first published on BBC runners on March 4, 2018 and is edited moment on the occasion of Aurangzeb's death anniversary.
Only one of the Mughal emperors failed to gain fashionability in the maturity community of India and his name was Aurangzeb Alamgir.
Among Indians, Aurangzeb is portrayed as a hard- line religious-inclined king who abominated Hindus and didn't spare indeed his elder family Dara Shukoh for his political interests.
In addition, he locked his senior father Shah Jahan in the stronghold of Agra for the last seven and a half times of his life.
Shahid Nadeem, a Pakistani playwright, wrote that"the seeds of Partition of India were sown when Aurangzeb defeated his family Dara."
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, also portrayed Aurangzeb as a religious and conservative man in his book Discovery of India, published in 1946.
But lately an American annalist, Audrey Truschke, stated in his rearmost book, Aurangzeb, The Man and the Meth, that the idea that Aurangzeb had tabernacles demolished because he abominated Hindus was wrong.
She writes that British chroniclers are responsible for the image of Aurangzeb who promoted Hindu-Muslim enmity under the British policy of" peak and rule".
In this book, she also states that if Aurangzeb's rule had been lower than 20 times, ultramodern chroniclers would have anatomized him else.
49 times rule over India
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The Red Fort is a testament to the history of the Mughal Empire in India
Aurangzeb ruled over 150 million people for 49 times. During his reign the Mughal Empire came so vast that for the first time he made nearly the entire key part of his conglomerate.
Truschke writes that Aurangzeb was buried in a slush grave in Khaldabad, Maharashtra, while a red gravestone tomb was erected for Humayun in Delhi and Shah Jahan was buried in the magnific Taj Mahal.
According to him; It's a misconception that Aurangzeb demolished thousands of Hindu tabernacles. Only a many tabernacles were demolished by his order.
Nothing happed during his rule which could be nominated as butchery of Hindus. In fact, Aurangzeb appointed Hindus to numerous important positions in his government.
Aurangzeb was veritably fond of literature
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Aurangzeb was born on November 3, 1618 in Dohad during the reign of his forefather Jahangir.
He was the third son of Shah Jahan. Shah Jahan had four sons and their mama was Mumtaz Mahal.
Piecemeal from Islamic studies, Aurangzeb also studied Turkish literature and learned penmanship.
Like other Mughal emperors, Aurangzeb also spoke easily in Hindi from his nonage.
From an early age, Shah Jahan's four sons contended for the Mughal throne The Mughals believed in the same principle of Central Asia in which all sisters had equal rights over the government.
Shah Jahan wanted to make his eldest son Dara Shukoh his successor, but Aurangzeb believed that he was the most able inheritor to the Mughal Empire.
Audrey Treschki mentions an incident in which after the marriage of Darius the Magnific, Shah Jahan arranged a contest between two mammoths, Sudhakar and Surat Sundar.
Suddenly, Sudhakar mounted his steed and angrily approached Aurangzeb.
He hit the steed so hard that Aurangzeb fell to the ground.
Observers included his sisters Shuja and RajaJ. Singh who tried to save Aurangzeb but ultimately the other giant Shyam Sundar drew Sudhakar's attention from there.
Abu Talib, the court minstrel of Shah Jahan, has mentioned this incident.