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Culture and History

NCERT says it has no information on source of claim made in textbook that Mughals had rebuilt temples after destroying them

OpIndia Staff - 13 January, 2021

NCERT History textbook says that Shahjahan and Aurangzeb have issued grants for rebuilding temples destroyed in war

News Reports

Delhi Police arrests 11 people for replacing Aurangzeb lane signboard with Guru Tegh Bahadur poster

Dibakar Dutta - 9 January, 2021

The cops detained the accused at the Tughlaq police station and initiated an investigation in the case.

News Reports

‘Aurangzeb is not uncle of Muslims’: Shiv Sena in Saamana as rift within MVA widens over renaming Aurangabad to ‘Sambhaji Nagar’

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2021

Congress party has opposed the move by Shiv Sena to rename the Aurangabad city as ‘Sambhaji Nagar’

News Reports

‘Horrible professor, avoid at all costs,’ pro-Aurangzeb historian Audrey Truschke receives harsh reviews from students on Rate My Professors

OpIndia Staff - 9 October, 2020

Pro-Aurangzeb historian Audrey Truschke is a professor at the History Department of the Rutgers State University in New Jersey.

Media

“Mughals were born from Rajput mothers”: Nehru fangirl Sagarika Ghose has yet another fangirl moment, this time for Akbar

OpIndia Staff - 16 September, 2020

After she woke up to the news that the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has renamed the Mughal Museum in Agra after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Ghose had a complete meltdown on Twitter.

Specials

Delusional and wrong every single time: Meet William Dalrymple, Leftist ‘historian’ who promotes ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’ with missionary zeal

K Bhattacharjee - 24 August, 2020

William Dalrymple is being credited for convincing Bloomsbury India to withdraw the book on the Delhi Riots.

News Reports

Shiv Sena leader demands ban on Sambhaji inspired TV series as Aurangzeb’s atrocities may ‘increase communal tension’

OpIndia Staff - 21 February, 2020

Many historical accounts state that Sambhaji Maharaj was subjected to unspeakable torture before being executed after he refused Aurangzeb's offer to embrace Islam

Opinions

Rajeev Dhavan’s effusive praise for Aurangzeb captures brilliantly the essential position in favour of Babri Masjid

K Bhattacharjee - 15 October, 2019

Rajeev Dhavan, the advocate for Muslim parties in the Ram Janambhoomi land dispute, appears to be clutching at straws as he heaped praise on Aurangzeb during the hearing

News Reports

Martyred Army soldier Aurangzeb’s father Mohammad Haneef likely to join BJP

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2019

Aurangzeb's father Mohammad Haneef is likely to join the BJP during PM Modi's visit to J and K in February.

Culture and History

Glorifying Aurangzeb and forgetting Guru Tegh Bahadur: The dangers of losing our identity

Sreejit Datta - 31 December, 2018

What was demanded of the ninth and penultimate Guru? That he yield to Aurangzeb’s demand of embracing Islam.

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