Aurangzeb’s predecessors on the Mughal throne allowed the coexistence of communities — Akbar and Dara Shikoh, the elder brother, who Aurangzeb killed to usurp the throne, patronised religious ...

The grave in question belongs to Aurangzeb Alamgir, the sixth and last great Mughal emperor, and possibly the least favourite ...

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The Mughal Empire, which flourished during the Indian subcontinent from the early 16th to the mid-19th century, saw the ...

Sultana Begum, a descendant of the last Mughal emperor, lives in poverty in a Kolkata slum, highlighting the forgotten legacy ...

Aurangzeb is remembered as the last great Mughal emperor, ruling Mughal India for nearly 50 years. Aurangzeb’s complicated and contradictory character has meant that his legacy is still debated ...

In a rundown slum on the outskirts of Kolkata, 60-year-old Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of India’s last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, struggles to survive. Once connected ...