Buried in the archives of Jaipur Fort and Kolkata's National Library, thousands of 17th-century Persian news dispatches from the Mughal court have waited centuries for a reader patient enough to hear what they say. Historian Munis Faruqui spent nearly two decades doing exactly that, and what emerged from more than 6,500 pages challenges the stories scholars and traditions have long told about Emperor Aurangzeb — his piety, his cruelty, and the women and eunuchs who quietly shaped his reign. These akhbarat, the daily newsletters of an empire that once governed a quarter of humanity, remind us t
Forgotten Mughal news reports reshape understanding of Aurangzeb's empire
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