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Aurangzeb Last Letter: Often something is found to hear something about Aurangzeb’s last letter. Historian Professor Irfan Habib gave information about this about this.
Know about that last letter of Aurangzeb
Highlights
- Aurangzeb killed his brother Dara Shikoh for power.
- Aurangzeb got the head of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
- Aurangzeb wrote letters regretting his sins.
Aurangzeb last letter: In the pages of history, Aurangzeb is the biggest name among the controversial Mughal rulers. Aurangzeb implemented discriminatory policies like Jizia tax on non-Muslims. Aurangzeb got the head of Sikhs Guru Tegh Bahadur. He selected Guru Govind Singh’s sons alive in the wall. At the same time, Sambhaji Maharaj’s eyes broke and uprooted the nails. During this reign, Fatwa-e-Alamgiri was implemented in India on the basis of Sharia and a large number of Hindu temples were destroyed.
Kashi and Somnath temples were destroyed and killed millions of Hindus, due to its cruelty, the Mughal Empire was able to expand the most in the entire Indian subcontinent.
Aurangzeb’s last letter
Aurangzeb died in 1707 AD. It is said that before death it regretted his crimes and Aurangzeb wrote letters to express his sons, Azam Shah and Kama Bakhsh. In these letters, he mentioned about his sins and failures. To know the answer to this question, the local 18 team took information from eminent historian Professor Irfan Habib.
Giving information, eminent historian Professor Irfan Habib said that there is no evidence of Aurangzeb getting such a letter. But there were some letters that were against Jaziya. In which there was an appeal to Aurangzeb that you keep Akbar Mufolisi. The letter is very famous which is in Persian. Often people say that Shivaji has written this letter, but some of them do some Shivaji. But he looks a little later. This is a letter but there is no more letter.
Get his own brother killed for power
Historian Professor Irfan Habib says that there was a way among the Mughals that people who were his brothers, could not rule. So used to make them blind by food and blind them. Sometimes he used to kill. For example, Aurangzeb killed his elder brother Dara Shikoh for power. Aurangzeb’s elder brother Dara Shikoh performed Sanskrit tax in Persian. He was killed. Behind the king.
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Aurangzeb had another brother named Murad Baksh. Killed that brother too. Aurangzeb believed that we should rule these people. Usually, all the Mughal emperors used to punish those who used to punish those who used to punish their kingdom. So that other people could not become the king and Aurangzeb did the same.
March 13, 2025, 10:11 IST
