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OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The ‘Grand Mughals’ at London’s V&A: Of Tipu Sultan, Sufis & Some Surprises Too | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The ‘Grand Mughals’ at London’s V&A: Of Tipu...

The exhibition’s curators presented all the pomp, but none of the circumstance. The V&A exhibition connived to present...

25 April 2025 11:25 PM IST

Sunil Gatade | From Babri to Aurangzeb: Hindutva Pot Kept Boiling

Sunil Gatade | From Babri to Aurangzeb: Hindutva Pot Kept Boiling

The battle for political supremacy in Maharashtra intensifies as the BJP seeks to use Aurangzeb’s legacy to claim the...

2 April 2025 10:13 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | SC must punish dispensers of ‘bulldozer justice’ now

Pavan K. Varma | SC must punish dispensers of ‘bulldozer justice’ now

Recently, in the aftermath of communal violence that erupted in Nagpur following protests over a poster of Aurangzeb,...

30 March 2025 2:09 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Tombs, melas, mosque rows: Grok adds to Modi’s troubles

Shikha Mukerjee | Tombs, melas, mosque rows: Grok adds to Modi’s...

In this emotionally charged space, the RSS has stepped in with a point of view that is just as irrational

24 March 2025 11:56 PM IST

AA Edit | Nagpur violence: Stop ‘irrelevant’ squabbles

AA Edit | Nagpur violence: Stop ‘irrelevant’ squabbles

Someone now wants to announce that the last powerful Mughal emperor was a brute who tortured, maimed and killed his own...

21 March 2025 12:16 AM IST

Security increased after VHP, Bajrang Dal threaten to destroy Aurangzeb’s tomb

Security increased after VHP, Bajrang Dal threaten to destroy...

The VHP and Bajrang Dal threatened to hold a statewide agitation for the removal of the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb in...

16 March 2025 10:58 PM IST

Aurangzeb: 400 yrs on, relook at a cruel bigot F S Aijazuddin Updated : Mar 8, 2018, 10:42 pm IST Aurangzeb was one of 14 children Shah Jahan sired from his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. The latest installation in the dark pantheon of Hindutvas anti-heroes is the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Had he lived, he would have been exactly 400 years old this year. Dead, he has become the target of barbs poisoned with prejudice. Generations since Aurangzebs death in 1707 have been force-fed the stale gruel that Aurangzeb, the monarch was a narrow-minded, Hindu-hating bigot who wasted his Mughal inheritance in a foolhardy obsession with conquering the Deccan. Some go so far as to assert that he single-handedly rang the death knell of the Mughal Empire. A few even argue that had Dara Shukoh (Aurangzebs eldest brother and rival) not lost the battle for their fathers throne, a post-1947 India would have been one contiguous, homogenous political realm, in which Muslim rulers and their multi-religious subjects would have lived in communal harmony. Four hundred years is too long a time to sustain such wisps of conjecture. The fact is that Dara Shukoh lost and Aurangzeb won. History can be an impatient judge, often passing a hasty verdict disproportionate to the crime. That is why any biography of Aurangzeb, especially one as unbiased as Audrey Truschkes Aurangzeb: the Man and The Myth (2017) is a necessary, albeit overdue, corrective. Aurangzeb was one of 14 children Shah Jahan sired from his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. He and his eldest brother Dara Shukoh could not have been more dissimilar. Dara inherited the aesthetic sense of his forebears, Aurangzeb their martial prowess. Dara Shukoh was a man of letters, a Sufi, an ornamented prince with dreams; Aurangzeb a man of action, a soldier, a ruthless tactician. Had Aurangzeb possessed the literary flair of his ancestors, he might have left a fuller chronicle of his own reign, as detailed as the Baburnama, the Humayun-nama, the Akbarnama, the Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, or the equivalent of Shah Jahans Padshahnama. Instead, Aurangzebs personal reticence, like Cordelias, proved to be his undoing. The perfunctory Maasir-i-Alamgiri has been overtaken by less kindly legends. Aurangzebs 88-year-long life falls into four parts. Up to the age of 17, he was brought up in his fathers court and groomed in all the skills Mughal princes needed to govern.

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The RSS set up the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in 1964 to capture the Babri Masjid.

28 Oct 2018 6:27 AM IST

BJP MP Maheish Girri said, Aurangzeb was a terrorist, in todays parlance... the punishment that he should have got he did not get, but at least, the road named after him, has been changed. (Photo: Twitter Screengrab/ @MaheishGirri)

Mughal emperor Aurungzeb was a terrorist, cruel ruler: BJP MP Maheish...

Girri hailed Aurangzeb's brother Dara Shikoh as a scholar who espoused syncretic values and pitched for greater...

10 Feb 2018 11:10 AM IST

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After #BoycottKBC trend, Sony TV apologises for disrespecting...

In the recent episode, Amitabh asked a question about Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to a contestant from Gujarat, Shaheda...

8 Nov 2019 4:06 PM IST

Amitabh Bachchan on KBC. (Photo: Twitter)

Twitterati want to boycott KBC, Big B trolled over Shivaji Maharaj...

Amitabh asked a question about Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to a contestant from Gujarat, Shaheda Chandran.

8 Nov 2019 10:33 AM IST

Indian Army soldier Aurangzeb belonged to 4 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry and was posted at the 44 Rashtriya Rifles camp at Shadimarg in Shopian. (Photo: YouTube | Screengrab)

3 soldiers being questioned over abduction, killing of soldier...

However, Army made it clear the soldiers in question have neither been detained nor arrested so far.

6 Feb 2019 2:39 PM IST

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Reports of soldier's abduction in Kashmir's Budgam incorrect: MoD

MoD said reports of soldier Mohammad Yaseen's abduction from Kashmir's Budgam are incorrect and that he was safe.

9 March 2019 9:02 AM IST