Aurangzeb Personality

PERSONALITIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION – 31102015-07

Title: Facts On Great Personalities – Aurangzeb

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Aurangzeb was one of the famous Mughal emperors. He was the Sixth Mughal Emperor and expanded the Mughal Empire to its zenith.

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Great Indian Personalities, Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor, Muslim, kids, kids world fun

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Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor, was considered one of the famous Mughal emperors. He expanded the Mughal Empire to its highest point, and was known as “Alamgir,” which meant World Seizer.
Aurangzeb was born on 3 November 1618 under the full name Abdul Muzaffar Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb. He was the third son of Emperor Shah Jahan and Arjumand Bano Begam (also known as Mumtaz Mahal). A few amazing

Aurangzeb defeated and killed him. He then imprisoned his father and assumed imperial authority on 21 July 1658. His next step was to execute his remaining three brothers and their two sons. After that, he crowned himself Emperor of India, assuming the title Alamgir (Conqueror of the World) on 5 June 1659.
He then started building a strong army and started expanding his empire. He conquered Punjab, Bijapur and many other states. However, Aurangzeb was not as tolerant as his father or grandfather. He could not tolerate other religions and in the process destroyed many of the Hindu temples. He also banned dancing, singing, and playing musical instruments in his empire. He was not open-minded and spend most of his time fighting against rebellions.
Aurangzeb was committed to making India an orthodox Muslim state. As a result, Aurangzeb destroyed many Hindu temples and banned Hindu festivals. Censors or Royal religious police were appointed to enforce morals, and edicts were issued against gambling, drinking, prostitution, and narcotics. Furthermore, a poll tax on Hindus was imposed in 1679. Tegh Bahadur, a defiant Sikh guru who had refused to embrace Islam was executed. Non-Muslims were not given employment in the imperial

However, behind all this were serious weaknesses. The Maratha campaign continually drained the imperial resources. The militancy of the Sikhs and the Jats boded ill for the empire in the north. The new Islamic policy estranged Hindu sentiment and damaged Rajput support. The financial pressure on the land strained the entire administrative framework.

Under Aurangzeb's piety and austerity, Mughal culture also suffered. Music and arts lost royal patronage, and the position of women rapidly declined. The Emperor strove to live up to the ideals of orthodox Islam. In his free time, Aurangzeb translated the Koran so that he could provide for his cremation expenses. He was a man of literary tastes, and his letters were a model of elegant Persian prose.
Finally, at the ripe old age of 90, with all his faculties intact, except hearing, he died on 20 Feb, 1707.
Aurangzeb was the last of the famous Mughal emperors. When he died after a reign of nearly 49 years on 20 February 1707 and was buried in Daulatabad. He left an empire not yet moribund but confronted with a number of menacing problems. The failure of his son’s successors to cope with them led to the collapse of the empire in the mid-18th century. After his death, the Mughal Empire