Aurangzeb - by Audrey Truschke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This brief, accessible biography sheds new light on one of India's most controversial and misunderstood figures, arguing that the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was not a Hindu-hating fanatic but rather a premodern Indian king driven by a thirst for power, piety, and justice.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This brief, accessible biography sheds new light on one of India's most controversial and misunderstood figures, arguing that the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was not a Hindu-hating fanatic but rather a premodern Indian king driven by a thirst for power, piety, and justice.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[An] important contribution to Mughal history....[and] an important effort for discussions around Muslim-Hindu encounters and the pre-modern/early modern India.--Shaharyar Zia "<i>Reading Religion</i>"<br><br>Basing her judgments on a careful reading of contemporary Persian chronicles and European traveler accounts, Audrey Truschke presents a fresh, balanced, and much-needed survey of one of the most controversial figures in Indian history. Crucially, the author insists on evaluating the man in terms of the norms and traditions of his own day, and not those of later, more polarized times.--Richard M. Eaton "University of Arizona"<br><br>Following British historians of the colonial era, Indian nationalists used the last and most controversial of the great Mughals in ways that simultaneously distorted Mughal history and served as a goad to Hindu cultural renewal. Audrey Truschke's project of looking at Emperor Aurangzeb afresh is thus a welcome and timely one and will interest readers in academia and beyond.--Barbara D. Metcalf "University of California, Davis"<br><br>Truschke is to be applauded on a number of counts: her courage for writing a biography of Aurangzeb (), her willingness to write a book that is easily accessible to nonspecialists, her skill in integrating large amounts of information within a coherent narrative, her thoughtfulness when balancing conflicting evidence, and her ability to give Aurangzeb his due without coming across as an apologist.--Munis D. Faruqui, <i>Journal of the American Academy of Religion</i><br><br>Truschke's laudable objective is to criticize Hindu nationalism, which makes the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) into a metonym for the Muslim community, and vilifies the emperor in order to vilify the community almost in its entirety....Truschke demonstrates with superb precision that the political-theological fault lines in Aurangzeb's reign did not run along simple Muslim versus Hindu / Sikh binaries.--Milinda Banerjee "<i>Sehepunkte</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Audrey Truschke</b> is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of <i>Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court</i> (2016).
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