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Aurangzeb's War of Succession: The Brothers Who Died for the Peacock Throne
Before Aurangzeb became the sixth Mughal emperor, he fought a brutal civil war against his three brothers — Dara Shikoh, Shuja, and Murad Baksh — for control of the Peacock Throne. This episode dissects the war of succession that erupted in 1657 when Shah Jahan fell ill, from the opening moves in the Deccan to the climactic battles of Samugarh and Khajwa. We follow Dara's philosophical liberalism and military blunders, Shuja's disastrous alliance with the Arakanese king, Murad's drunken betrayal by his own allies, and Aurangzeb's cold political genius in eliminating each…
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