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Aurangzeb's Brother Dara Shikoh: The Lost Prince of Tolerance
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the life and tragic fate of Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of Shah Jahan and the philosophical rival to Aurangzeb. Dara was a scholar-prince who translated Hindu scriptures into Persian, studied the Upanishads with Sufi mystics, and dreamed of a syncretic Mughal empire. His execution by Aurangzeb in 1659 sealed the empire's turn toward orthodoxy. The conversation covers his masterpiece Majma-ul-Bahrain ('The Mingling of Two Oceans'), his patronage of the arts, his disastrous military campaigns, and the enduring legacy of his pluralistic…
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