Aurangzeb

Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707) the sixth Mughal emperor is widely reviled in India today. Hindu hater murderer and religious zealot are just a handful of the modern caricatures of this maligned ruler. While many continue to accept the storyline peddled by colonial-era thinkers-that Aurangzeb a Muslim was a Hindu-loathing bigot-there is an untold side to him as a man who strove to be a just worthy Indian king.In this bold and captivating biography Audrey Truschke enters the public debate with a fresh look at the controversial Mughal emperor. About the Author Audrey Truschke is assistant professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University in Newark New Jersey. She received her PhD in 2012 from Columbia University. Her teaching and research interests focus on the cultural imperial and intellectual history of early modern and modern India (c. 1500-present). Her first book Culture of Encounters Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Penguin 2016) investigates the literary social and political roles of Sanskrit as it thrived in the Persian-speaking Islamic Mughal courts from 1560 to 1650.