Auranzeb spent his last 3-4 years in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra , as a coward hiding from the Marathas, who were attacking and slaughtering his army .
so feared were the Marathas ,that whenever mughal horses refused to drink water from ponds, Mughals used to think that the horses had seen the reflection of Marathas in the water.
Marathas harrassed him and his army , sometimes attacking him head-on, sometimes using guerilla warfare.
auranzeb had come to Deccan to conquer Marathas,but Marathas eventually conquered him.
he died in khultabad literally like a beggar.
His unmarried favorite daughter was buried next to him.
after he died ,Marathas installed his son as a puppet ruler in delhi and ruled 60% of india, Rajputs won back Rajasthan, Sikhs won back Punjab and parts of Afghanistan.Jats won Haryana. Evil persisted only in Hyderabad , Mysore and Junagadh.
aurnazeb controlled 80% of india when he lived,within a few years of his death, hindus ruled 80% of india.
Auranzebs death heralded the end of muslim rule in most of india.
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on hearing the news of auranzebs death, Sant Ramdas , Shivaji Maharaj's spiritual Guru , wrote
" Budala Aurangya Paapi , Hindustan Balavle"
It means:
" Aurangya the sinner is dead , hindusthan is now stronger"
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by wada pav on Mar 20, 2007 01:47 AM Permalink
Rafiuddin , ur knowledge of indian history is only as deep as ur prophets knowledge of science.
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by rafiuddin farooqui on Mar 20, 2007 05:32 AM Permalink
I know what product you mixed and crossed. Thanks to Arabi and Paki they did not did anything wrong. You lost the game. Become mad it suicidal for you. Senseless postings.
Aurangzeb was driven by an intense Muslim piety. He insisted that the Shari'a(Mistaken or wrongly got He just make Just rule and given 148 highest position to Hindus in Judiciary to deal the cases) become the law of the land, and forbade all drinking and gambling. The Hindu majority, accustomed to living according to Hindu law, the Dharmashastra , now found themselves facing Islamic law courts. Aurangzeb outlawed the Hindu practice of suttee in which widows voluntarily killed themselves by throwing themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands. More seriously, however, was Aurangzeb's repeal of all taxes that were not specifically authorized in Islamic law or tradition
Aurangzeb is become wicked to the Brahamans and Higher Castes Hindus. Because he started reformation. Closing all Temple and Ashram Brothels, Gambling, Drinking and other practices. He initiated reformation that made villian to Brahmans and Higher Castes. Because Aurangzeb wanted to liberate BC/ST/SC and Dalit from the cluthes and wrong practices of Brahmans and Higher Castes. The all filth written in the History by Western Writers come from where. By these RSS and GANGS and Goons work. They Give Vish Kanniya and Rewards to write against Aurangzeb. They want to use now. This was the strategy. The forced convertion, razing temples, killing Hindus all were fabricated and heinous work of these hatred mongers. They want rule India by encouraging hatred against Muslims. Encouraging Hatred against Could not unite Hindus. The only thing is Revolution which is a step ahead.
The inhumanity did not lie in the Indian nature, but the nature had fallen victim to the evil heritage of colonial history. Few realised how 1000 years of their history had been stolen from them. Many tended to buy the fake and doctored version handed down to them as part of their colonial heritage. Some even saw a little political advantage in this trade. Dr Pande heard a leading Hindu Mahasabha politician and religious leader, Mahant Digvijaynath, telling an election meeting that it is written in the Qur'an that killing a Hindu was an act of goodness (thawab). Dr Pande called upon the Mahant (High Priest) and told him that he had read the Qur'an a few times but didn't find such a statement in it, and he had, therefore, brought with him several English, Urdu and Hindi translations of the Qur'an; so would he kindly point to him where exactly did the statement occur in the Qur'an?
Isn't it written there? said the Mahant. I haven't found it; if you have, please tell me, replied Dr Pande. Then what does it say? It speaks about love and brotherhood, about the oneness of mankind. What's jihad then? What is jizyah? How then India got partitioned? The Mahant went on asking, and Dr Pande kept on explaining, hoping the Mahant would correct himself. However, the Mahant's ideas were fixed, in prejudice and in ignorance
The miscreants had asked him to point out the Muslim houses so they could spare the Hindu houses. Kalyan Singh refused, and watched as the mob set fire to all the houses - including his own. How could I betray my Muslim neighbours? he asked Dr Pande rhetorically.
Dr Pande also went to the Muslim students hostel. One-third of its residents were Hindus. "Come out all you Hindu students," yelled a murderous mob gathered outside the hostel. No, we won't, shouted back the Hindu students and locked the gate from inside. In the event, the entire hostel was evacuated by the army and then left to the mob to loot and burn. The Hindu students were told they could take with them their books and research papers. Dr Pande met a young DSc scholar, named Desai, who had left behind his more than three years' labour, a ready-for-typing dissertation, to be burnt by the arsonists. Desai said he couldn't think of saving his thesis while some of his Muslim friends were in similar position with their theses. A noble soul! Dr Pande who had been looking for humanity found it there as well.
Dr Pande believed in the innate goodness of human nature. Despite all that senseless hate and periodical outbreak of anti-Muslim violence after independence, he remained an optimist. When one of the worst riots took place in 1979 in Ahmadabad, in which more than 2,000 Muslims were killed and 6,000 houses burnt, Dr Pande travelled there to see whether there was 'any humanity still alive'.
Yes, it was in one locality, Mewabhai Chaal, where he found that all the houses had been burnt down. Did they all belong to Muslims? No. Only 35 belonged to Muslims; some 125 belonged to Hindus, he was told. So, it meant, the arsonists came in two different waves; one destroying the Muslim houses and the other the Hindu houses? No, it was only one wave, said Kalayan Singh. That one, there, he pointed out to smoke billowing from what used to be his house and his tyre-shop. He was a Hindu and he had lost property and business worth 200,000 rupees.
'When Aurangzeb came to know of this, he was very much enraged. He sent his senior officers to search for the Rani. Ultimately they found that statue of Ganesh [the elephant-headed god which was fixed in the wall was a moveable one. When the statue was moved, they saw a flight of stairs that led to the basement. To their horror they found the missing Rani dishonoured and crying deprived of all her ornaments. The basement was just beneath Lord Vishwanath's seat.'
The Rajas demanded salutary action, and 'Aurangzeb ordered that as the sacred precincts have been despoiled, Lord Vishwanath may be moved to some other place, the temple be razed to the ground and the Mahant [head priest] be arrested and punished'. (B N Pande, Islam and Indian Culture, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna, 1987)
One of the greatest charges against Aurangzeb is of the demolition of Vishwanath temple in Banaras (Varanasi). That was a fact, but Dr Pande unravelled the reason for it. 'While Aurangzeb was passing near Varanasi on his way to Bengal, the Hindu Rajas in his retinue requested that if the halt was made for a day, their Ranis may go to Varanasi, have a dip in the Ganges and pay their homage to Lord Vishwanath. Aurangzeb readily agreed.
'Army pickets were posted on the five mile route to Varanasi. The Ranis made journey on the palkis [palanquins]. They took their dip in the Ganges and went to the Vishwanath temple to pay their homage. After offering puja [worship] all the Ranis returned except one, the Maharani of Kutch. A thorough search was made of the temple precincts but the Rani was to be found nowhere.
For Dr Pande this was a 'new image of Aurangzeb'; so he wrote to the chief priests of the various important temples, all over the country, requesting photocopies of any farman issued by Aurangzeb that they may have in their possession. The response was overwhelming; he got farmans from several principal Hindu and jain temples, even from Sikh Gurudwaras in northern India. These farmans, issued between 1659 and 1685, related to grant of jagir (large parcel of agricultural lands) to support regular maintenance of these places of worship.
Dr Pande's research showed that Aurangzeb was as solicitous of the rights and welfare of his non-Muslim subjects as he was of his Muslim subjects. Hindu plaintiffs received full justice against their Muslims respondents and, if guilty, Muslims were given punishment as necessary.
