"Next, he took a step further, and in the 12th year of his reign (9th April, 1669) he issued a general order “to demolish all the schools and temples of the infidels and to put down their religious teaching and practices."
— Aurangzeb

January 1, 1970

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Also translated as: In April, 1669 he ordered the provincial governors to ‘destroy the temples and schools of the Brahmans… and to utterly put down the teachings and religious practices of the infidels…. in: ‘Anecdotes of Aurangzib and Historical Essays’ by Jadunath Sarkar