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It was March 4, 1707, a Jumma Day, in the fiftieth year of his reign when he was eighty-nine, Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir breathed his last after finishing his usual morning prayer.
It was a fateful day in Mughal history, for it marked the end of an era and the beginning of another in which the Mughal Empire tottered to its fall. Decadence had long set in during the reign of Aurangzeb and towards the end of his reign he had presages of something evil that was to come. His lonely unloved life and its pathos became evident in his letters to his sons when the end was approaching.
History is respecter of no person and its verdict is that what Akbar had built up Aurangzeb undermined and the ultimate ruin was a matter of time. Unusually brave “clement, just and benevolent Aurangzeb’s all actions were tainted by suspicion and religious intolerance”. In the political sphere his lifelong endeavour to govern India strongly ended in anarchy and disruption.
Aurangzeb’s long absence from the capital had given rein to disorder in the north, the Jats had risen near about Agra, the Rajputs were in open rebellion, the Sikhs challenged the Mughal authority in Multan, the Marathas in the Deccan were pillaging towns, ravaging fields and villages.
The Bundelas and the Satnamis were no exceptions. For all this, Aurangzeb had to thank himself. He had virtues as well vices but nothing influenced his career more than religious bigotry and intolerance. He failed to realize that no power that had not acquired the confidence of, the Hindus could expect to last in India. Naturally, what Akbar had gained and what Jahangir or Shah Jahan despite personal vices and failings had retained, he lost, namely, the affection of the Hindus.
It was a fateful day in Mughal history, for it marked the end of an era and the beginning of another in which the Mughal Empire tottered to its fall. Decadence had long set in during the reign of Aurangzeb and towards the end of his reign he had presages of something evil that was to come. His lonely unloved life and its pathos became evident in his letters to his sons when the end was approaching.
History is respecter of no person and its verdict is that what Akbar had built up Aurangzeb undermined and the ultimate ruin was a matter of time. Unusually brave “clement, just and benevolent Aurangzeb’s all actions were tainted by suspicion and religious intolerance”. In the political sphere his lifelong endeavour to govern India strongly ended in anarchy and disruption.
Aurangzeb’s long absence from the capital had given rein to disorder in the north, the Jats had risen near about Agra, the Rajputs were in open rebellion, the Sikhs challenged the Mughal authority in Multan, the Marathas in the Deccan were pillaging towns, ravaging fields and villages.
The Bundelas and the Satnamis were no exceptions. For all this, Aurangzeb had to thank himself. He had virtues as well vices but nothing influenced his career more than religious bigotry and intolerance. He failed to realize that no power that had not acquired the confidence of, the Hindus could expect to last in India. Naturally, what Akbar had gained and what Jahangir or Shah Jahan despite personal vices and failings had retained, he lost, namely, the affection of the Hindus.
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