Tag: Emperor

  • Bad Ruler Or Bad His­to­ry?: Mughal Emper­or Aurangzeb

    Bad Ruler Or Bad His­to­ry?: Mughal Emper­or Aurangzeb

    Of all the Muslim rulers who ruled vast territories of India from 712 to 1857 CE, probably no one has received as much condemnation from Western and Hindu writers as Aurangzeb. He has been castigated as a religious Muslim who was anti-Hindu, who taxed them, who tried to convert them, who discriminated against them in…