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.

Activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, fraternal organizations of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist ...

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.

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 ...