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Aurangzeb's Bengal Frontier: The Conquest That Shaped India's East
While Aurangzeb's Deccan campaigns drained the empire, his expansion into Bengal was a quieter but equally consequential story. This episode follows the Mughal conquest of Bengal under Shaista Khan, the pivotal Battle of Saraighat against the Ahom kingdom, and the transformation of Dhaka into a Mughal capital. We explore how Bengal's rice wealth financed Aurangzeb's wars, the role of the Portuguese pirates of Arakan, and the construction of the Lalbagh Fort. The episode also examines the death of Shaista Khan's son, Buzurg Umed Khan, at the hands of Chhatrapati…
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