What We Are Reading Today: Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir and the Mughal Empire’ by Munis D. Faruqui

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Munis D. Faruqui’s “Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir and the Mughal Empire” provides new insights into the emperor’s rise to power, his administrative and religious policies. By unpicking the complex dynamics of a long reign, this remarkable new history cuts through the many myths that have obscured the extraordinary life story of the last of the so-called “great” Mughal emperors.