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.

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 ...

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Retributive justice awaits Aurangzeb, the bête noire of the saffron ecosystem ... “The government will start working for the people only when it gets time from changing the names of the places.” A ...

Azmi’s laudatory remarks on Aurangzeb are indeed deplorable, but how on earth any praise for a cruel emperor can outrage “the religious feelings of any class of citizens of India” or ...

Aurangzeb declared himself Emperor of Mughal India in 1658. Aurangzeb failed in ... and expanded over time. The first initiative was taken by Rani Ahilyabai Holkar.

But it has to be done under the purview of law” as the site is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India. Over the last few years, social tensions and controversy around Aurangzeb have ...

His tomb is protected as a Monument of National Importance by the Archaeological Survey of India under ... Koran in his spare time. Maasir-i-Alamgiri, the account of Aurangzeb’s reign composed ...

It was supposed to stop with Ayodhya. But Kashi, Mathura, Sambhal and a flurry of other mandir-masjid disputes signal a new ...

That battle was not about Hindus and Muslims anywhere," he added. He said that during Aurangzeb's time, India's border extended to Afghanistan. "At that time, our GDP was 24 per cent ...

The controversy over Aurangzeb erupted last month after Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Azmi praised the Mughal emperor, saying that during the latter's time, India was called "Sone ki Chidiya".