"Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal Emperor (r. 1658-1707), is perhaps the most despised of India’s medieval Muslim rulers. P…"

"For anyone unfamiliar with these episodes, in Valmiki's telling (I'm loosely translating here): During the agnipariks…"

"Thinking today about Sambhaji, a seventeenth-century Maratha ruler who, by the end of his life, had alienated many su…"

"Shivaji’s return to insurgency was devastating for the Mughals. Beginning in 1670 Shivaji plundered Surat and other p…"

"More dubiously, some have proposed that Aurangzeb’s alleged austerity was a fatal flaw. For instance, Jadunath Sarkar…"

"Modern historians estimate that 15 to 20 percent of Bengal's population died during the 1769-1770 famine, a starkly d…"

"The British oversaw - and contributed through inaction to - dozens of famines during two centuries of colonial rule, …"

"Let us note finally that on this issue, Audrey’s book is representative of a wider concern to whitewash Aurangzeb. In…"

"The political power equation that facilitates the partisan anti-scholarly conduct of your camp will not last forever.…"

"Audrey Truschke has engaged in what would in any other context be called genocide denial and Holocaust revisionism. B…"