Arrests For Carrying Aurangzeb Posters In Ahmednagar
Aurangzeb, Maratha & Maharashtra, Hatred filled Itihas: Aurangzeb hated Hindus. There may be three opinions among historians regarding this fact, but there is one opinion in the mind of common Hindus. That is, he had destroyed the Vishwanath temple in Kashi and the Keshavrai temple in Mathura. For those who believed in Aurangzeb, he was a world champion, that’s why he was called Alamgir. But the chariot of his victory was stopped by the Sikhs in the west and the Marathas in the Deccan. In return, Aurangzeb had done a lot of atrocities on them.
History is old but the wounds given by Aurangzeb are still green in the hearts of Sikhs and Marathas. This is the reason that in the last two days in Ahmednagar and Kolhapur, some Muslim unruly youths waved posters of Aurangzeb and used his picture in their social media status, then once again there was tension in the atmosphere in Maharashtra.
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Facts of Aurangzeb’s Hindu opposition, arguments for and against
Aurangzeb got Akbar started the discriminatory Jizya tax which was collected from Hindus and non-Muslims. Got Shariat implemented in his rule. Hindu festivals were banned in 1668. Ordered to demolish the temple in 1699. All these facts cannot be denied. But the logic of some historians is different from this. Some historians consider these facts to be correct, but the reason behind this is not Hindu hatred but they consider political motives.
Heroes were killed for not accepting Islam, then how was Aurangzeb not anti-Hindu?
Historian Richard Eaton says that only those temples were demolished from where the opponents of the Mughal Sultanate used to get help. They argue that Aurangzeb never attacked the temples of South India. Some historians even tell him to take Hindus along. Historian Catherine Butler says that Aurangzeb built and donated more temples than he destroyed. Provided that those temples were being built on the initiative of their supportive kings or mansabdars.
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Guru Teg Bahadur and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj would have survived if they had accepted Islam.
Historian M. Athar Ali argues that during the time of Aurangzeb’s father Shah Jahan, the number of Hindu courtiers and close relatives of the emperor was 24 percent, during Aurangzeb it became 33 percent. In this way, those who defend Aurangzeb forget that one of the reasons for the murder of Guru Teg Bahadur of Sikhs and Sambhaji, son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was not to accept the condition of accepting Islam. How can it be denied that in order to avoid death in front of both the heroes, a condition was placed to bow down before Aurangzeb and accept Islam. Both had rejected these conditions. That’s why Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj is also called Dharmaveer in Maratha history.
Aurangzeb’s Maratha and Maharashtra connections; Compromise, Controversy, Confrontation
Aurangzeb’s first contact with Maharashtra is in 1634 when Mughal ruler Shah Jahan sends him as Subedar of Deccan and Aurangzeb names Khadki in today’s Maharashtra as Aurangabad. After some time, he returns to Delhi and once again in 1652, Shah Jahan sends him as the governor of the Deccan. But this time he turns towards Bijapur and Golconda (today’s Karnataka). Aurangzeb sits on the throne of Delhi in 1659. The one who rules one fourth of the world’s population (150 million) and twelve and a half lakh square miles of land becomes the richest ruler of his time. But his ambition and arrogance hurt the Sikhs in the west and the Marathas in the Deccan.
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Sikhs did not allow access to Afghanistan, Marathas prevented them from conquering the South
Aurangzeb had a fight with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj since when he was the Subedar of Deccan. Where Aurangzeb’s eyes used to turn towards Delhi, Shivaji Maharaj used to conquer the forts and cities of Bijapur and Deccan. The guerilla and guerilla policy (ganimikawa) of the Marathas greatly troubled the large number of Mughal army and entangled them in the Deccan, did not allow the southern campaign to succeed. Aurangzeb imprisoned Shivaji Maharaj and his son Sambhaji Maharaj and locked them in Agra Fort. But they escaped with their cleverness and bravery.
Even after Shivaji Maharaj, Marathas fought with Aurangzeb and got their noses chewed
However, historian Yadunath Sarkar says that there was a time when Shivaji Maharaj agreed to become Aurangzeb’s mansabdar. Aurangzeb was about to give him the command of the entire South. But he could not fully trust them and did not approve of this. After the incident of escaping from the prison of Agra, Aurangzeb started raising even more bloodshed for the Marathas. Even after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Marathas kept the Mughals in trouble. The son who rebelled against Aurangzeb used to get on very well with Shivaji Maharaj’s son Sambhaji. This thing also used to sting Aurangzeb. Sambhaji Maharaj also helped him to escape to Persia.
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The way Sambhaji Maharaj was murdered, how can any Maratha forget
It is about 1689. Ganoji Shirke, brother-in-law of Shivaji Maharaj’s son Sambhaji, told all the secrets to Mughal commander Mukarrab Khan and in a battle of Sangameshwar, Sambhaji Maharaj was caught along with 25 of his loyalists. After this he was brutally treated on the orders of Aurangzeb. He was brought to Bahadurgarh in Ahmednagar district and humiliated. Different things have been written in the Mughal and Maratha records regarding the treatment meted out to Sambhaji Maharaj.
The death of Sambhaji Maharaj is mentioned in the Mughal records like this
It has been said in the Mughal records that during the interrogation, Sambhaji Maharaj insulted the emperor and Prophet Mohammad and got the death sentence written for himself. While he was only asked to hand over the forts and treasures. Mughal writers have also written that Sambhaji Maharaj was sentenced to death for looting, killing and torturing Muslims in Burhanpur.
In the history of Marathas, the brutality of the Mughals is seen in the murder of Sambhaji Maharaj.
It is mentioned in Maratha records that Sambhaji Maharaj was asked to bow before Aurangzeb and accept Islam. Sambhaji rejected it and some also say that Sambhaji Maharaj had given a tit-for-tat reply that he would accept Islam on the day Aurangzeb would hand over his daughter’s hand. After this, on March 11, 1689, Sambhaji’s body was mercilessly torn to death from front and back with Wagh Nakha (tiger claws made of iron). The eyes and tongue were gouged out and hacked to death at Tulapur on the banks of the Bhima river near Pune. Some accounts also mention that Sambhaji’s body was cut into pieces and thrown into the river. It is also mentioned at one place that the pieces of his body were fed to the dogs.
Aurangzeb is buried in Maharashtra today, Marathas still remember that pain, that prick
When the Deccan and South could not be handled by Aurangzeb’s army, Aurangzeb had left Delhi and himself started towards Deccan and South from 1683. In his last twenty-five years, he stayed away from Delhi like this. He died on 3 March 1707 in Ahmednagar, today’s Maharashtra. He was buried near the tomb of Fakir Burhanuddin in Daulatabad.
Just as there were some good things in Ravana too, similarly Aurangzeb, despite being the richest emperor of his time, preferred to live and die with simplicity instead of luxuries unlike other Mughal rulers. He had expressed his desire to make his own grave very simple. His grave is present in Khuldabad in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. Aurangzeb is buried in Maharashtra only, that’s why Marathas still remember the pain and sting of Sambhaji Maharaj’s murder. This is the reason that recently Aurangabad has been renamed Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. The war with Aurangzeb continues.
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