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Aurangzeb's Satnamis: The Peasant Revolt That Exposed Mughal Weakness
In 1672, a sect of pacifist farmers in the Punjab region — the Satnamis — rose up against Aurangzeb's empire and nearly captured the city of Narnaul. This episode follows the rebellion from its spark — a quarrel over a broken plough — to the imperial response: a Mughal army under the emperor's own son that barely suppressed the uprising. We look at who the Satnamis were (often compared to the Digambara Jains or the later Sikh Khalsa), their martial traditions, and why Aurangzeb himself took personal command of the counterattack before being persuaded to stay in Delhi. The revolt…
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