Now coming to Aurangzeb Road and The hindu-muslim arguments over history. May be No muslim will beleive that Aurangzeb was a villian and no Hindu will beleive him to be a Hero. But this has been well documented in India that he was a cruel ruler. That's y there were so many rebellions against him namely the Sikhs, Marathas, Satnamis etc. He inherited a great kingdom built so laborously by Akbar. The greatest mughal of the dynasty. Had aurangzeb been a good ruler there would not have been so many rebellions against him. Which ultimately lead to the decline of the mughal empire after his death. Now this should be difficult to refute by any muslim. How good can a person be who imprisons his own father, poisons his brother Murad who helped him win against Dara Shikoh can be well understood. Any ruler is a good ruler if he has been good to all his subjects No matter which religion he belongs to. He might have adhered strongly to the principles of Islam and enforced these principles in his kingdom But then by doing so he never did any good to his majority of subjects. Any govt today is a bad govt that treats badly the people who are in minority, And aurangzeb was very bad to majority of his subjects. This assumes signficance because almost all the revolts during his reign were from hindus. Except marathas all the revolts had sense of revenge for the atrocities commited on their religion and belief. His religious policy of intolerence was the main factor that a son of his revolted a
