What was the impact of shah jahan and aurangazeb's rule on the mughal empire?
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What was the impact of Aurangzeb's rule on the Mughal Empire? The Impact of Aurangzeb's rule… History proved beyond doubt that every Empire that evolved and flourished across centuries created its own grave-diggers. Aurangzeb was the last of the Great Mughals who dug a very expensive grave. Aurangzeb was one of the most tyrannical tormentor perpetrator of Intolerant Inhuman crimes in India. Aurangzeb's reign lasted for almost 5 decades. In the first 2 decade of Aurangzeb's rule peace thrived at the center, though war loomed at the borders. It was post 1680, the empire started to crumble. Impact of Administrative Policy: Unlike Akbar who used to pay his officials from State treasury, Aurangzeb followed Jagir system so that started zamindari system, reducing peasants to poverty, refusal of revenue by zamindars' and their clash with nobility. Impact of Religious Policy His religious policies, taxing non- Islamic people, intolerance, forced conversions, destruction of holy places and learning institutes,removal of non Muslims from government jobs,social restrictions brought him contempt and also hatred from people who revolted. Impact of Political Policy: His Deccan policy was miserable failure. What he thought would suppress the rebels backfired against him. After Shivaji's death Deccan conquest was not hard for him, but his brutal killing of Sambhaji, brought him great expense since the Marathas morale had now fired up with the sacrifice of Sambhaji. Aurangzeb was a strong ruler and an expansionist. He expanded his empire to a great extent. Due to his centralized administration, the rule became unstable, since most of the time he was at war. His extremism not only dried up the creativity of the empire it also led to the rise of rebels in all the parts of the empire. Constant war in the Deccan, costs him more than what he gained from there. As the empire expanded, it brought great expense too. His nobles were not loyal and greedy and he couldn't check on them since he was fighting in the Deccan. He introduced Sharia law in the empire, his intolerance led to rise of Marathas, and the Sikhs and Jats. He disregarded the major backbone of the Mughal empire, the Rajputs. This shook the foundation of the Mughal Empire. His rule of 49 long years,resulted in weak and old successors. In short his rule led to the downfall of Mughals.