Amidst Abu Azmi Row, What Nehru Said About Aurangzeb, How History Remembers The Mughal Ruler | Explained
Last Updated:March 06, 2025, 15:09 IST In his book ‘Discovery of India’, Nehru called Aurangzeb ‘a bigot and an austere puritan… He infuriated the great majority of his subjects by imposing the old hated jizya poll-tax on the Hindus’ Western Orientalist scholars called Aurangzeb a despot and blamed him for weakening of the Mughal state….