Explain some of the important events and developments that took place after death of Aurangzeb? Plzzzzzzzzzzz answer
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Many Indian historians consider his death year 1707 as the one which marks the end of Medieval Indian history and the start of Modern Indian history when classifying Indian history. This is because of the start of decline of the Mughal empire and the start of domination of European powers in India.
His critics argue that his ruthless and vindictive religious bigotry made him unsuitable to rule the mixed population of his empire and policies of persecution of Shias, Sufis and non-Muslims to impose practices of orthodox Islamic state, such as imposition of sharia and jizya religious tax on non-Muslims, doubling of custom duties on Hindus while abolishing it for Muslims, executions of Muslims and non-Muslims, destruction of temples, forbidding construction and repairs of some temples, which they argue led to numerous rebellions.G. N. Moin Shakir and Sarma Festschrift argue that he often used political opposition as pretext for religious persecution,[184] and that, as a result, Jats, Marathas, Sikhs, Satnamis and Pashtuns all rose against him