New Delhi, India — Datta Shirke ... on the battlefield in his time and excellent at building alliances, said Audrey Truschke, historian and author of the book Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth.

Pune/Khuldabad There is an illuminating story about Aurangzeb in Harbans Mukhia’s The Mughals of India: Soon after he ... remains a provocation but at the same time a vindication too in Maharashtra.

The ghost of Aurangzeb is back to haunt us. A chap who croaked three centuries ago continues his religious line-drawing on a land already struggling to make sense of the past while drawing a road map ...

Policemen watch as vehicles are torched during communal clashes prompted by protests demanding the removal of the tomb of 17th-century Mughal ruler Aurangzeb in Nagpur, India, on March 17 ...