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Aurangzeb's Failed Diplomacy: The Emperor Who Lost the Marathas
This episode peels back the military campaigns to examine Aurangzeb's catastrophic diplomatic failure with the Marathas. We explore the 1666 Treaty of Purandar, which Aurangzeb negotiated with Mirza Raja Jai Singh I and Shivaji Maharaj, and how the emperor's personal humiliation of Shivaji at his Agra court in 1666 turned a potential ally into an implacable enemy. Unlike Shahu, the nominal Maratha king he later kept as a hostage, or the Rajput princes he frequently co-opted, Aurangzeb's inability to respect Maratha sovereignty—treating leaders like Sambhaji, Rajaram, and…
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