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Aurangzeb

The Truth About Gyanvapi

Sandeep Balakrishna

By Attempting to sanitise Aurangzeb’s anti-Hindu legacy, historians have done him a disservice

The Chhatrapati’s Chutzpah

Aurangzeb’s persecution of Hindus provided the ethical and cultural premise for Shivaji’s rebellion

Aurangzeb: The Emperor of Counter-Reformation

Dara Shikoh’s defeat was a turning point in history as the concept of an inclusive India yielded to the supremacy of Islam. The consequences of the decisive battle of Samugarh were felt for more than three centuries despite the Mughal empire’s rapid disintegration under the weight of his victorious brother’s bigotry

Aurangzeb on Trial

He partitioned the Indian mind even as he expanded his empire

How Vrindavan Saved Shivaji

The aesthetics of Indian politics VII

The Philosopher Who Would Be King

It is hard not to think that India would have been a very different country under Dara Shukoh

The Parable of a Mughal Prince

What the story of Dara Shukoh says about our desire for kingship

Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh: Three Lives in History

Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh offer lessons in dissent in our own time of churn

In the Name of Gods

Muslim iconoclasm and the Hindu response

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