"“In every parganah officers have come from the thanahs with orders from the Presence for the destruction of idols.”"
— Aurangzeb

January 1, 1970

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—A letter preserved in the Yasho-Madhav temple of Dhamrai in the Dacca district, dated 27 June, 1672, and printed in J. M. Ray’s Bengali History of Dacca, i. 389. quoted in Sarkar, Jadunath (1972). History of Aurangzib: Volume III. App. V.