When Aurangzeb died on March 3, 1707, at the age of 88, the Mughal Empire was already in decline. Sir Jadunath Sarkar argues that his death triggered a war of succession that further weakened Mughal ...

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Aurangzeb was one of the most powerful rulers to have governed the Indian subcontinent, and his grave is not in Nagpur. It is ...

Aurangzeb, one of the most controversial figures in Indian history, died in Ahmednagar (officially Ahilyanagar) -- a city in ...

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

Udayanraje Bhosale, a descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, reignited the controversy by demanding the removal of ...

The exhibition ends as it begins, with a juxtaposition of the elite and mundane craftsmanship that combined to form the cosmopolitan culture across the Mughal empire: Marble parchin kari ...

Aurangzeb’s predecessors on the Mughal throne allowed the coexistence of communities — Akbar and Dara Shikoh, the elder ...

He, who came to the throne after imprisoning his father and having his older brother killed, ruled India for nearly 50 years from 1658 to 1707 ... emperor of the Mughal Empire and is often ...

Emperor Aurangzeb, the sixth ruler of the Mughal Empire, remains one of the most ... Aurangzeb: The ruler and his reputation Aurangzeb (1618–1707) ascended the Mughal throne in 1658 after ...

The crown, along with two ornate throne chairs, was acquired by Major Robert Tytler following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the subsequent fall of the Mughal Empire. This key moment in Indian ...

A potential successor to Mr Modi has also come out against the violence. Nitin Gadkari, the BJP minister for roads, appealed ...