Audrey Truschke, in her latest book on Aurangreligious zealot are just a handful of the modern caricatures" of the Mughal emperor. They denounce that he restricted the celebration of Holi without mentioning that he also clamped down on Muharram and Eid festivities." In fact, one suspects she first decided to humanise, secularise Aurangzeb and then went about finding documents supporting it. As for the large presence of Hindus in his bureaucracy, Aurangzeb's move should not be seen as a tolerant policy. He lost his two sons on the frontier, while the third, the heir-apparent Prithvi Singh, was allegedly poisoned by Aurangzeb.

Source: India Today February 19, 2017 09:59 UTC