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The Mughal Navy That Never Was: Aurangzeb vs the Angre
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Aurangzeb's forgotten naval war against the Kanhoji Angre's Maratha fleet. Between 1698 and 1718, the Angre family built a formidable navy based at Vijaydurg and Suvarnadurg, raiding Mughal shipping from Surat to the Malabar coast. Aurangzeb, a land emperor at heart, tried to counter them with a mix of European mercenaries, Portuguese alliances, and failed shipbuilding programs. We look at the 1702 siege of Vijaydurg, the role of the Siddi of Janjira, and the fateful decision to rely on British East India Company ships—a policy that sowed the…
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