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Aurangzeb's Royal Library: Books, Scholars, and Censorship
This episode of Fexingo History delves into Aurangzeb's personal library, a vast collection of manuscripts that reveals the emperor's intellectual passions and contradictions. Lucas and Luna explore how Aurangzeb, often portrayed as a puritanical ruler, commissioned translations of Hindu epics like the Mahabharata into Persian, employed scholars from diverse faiths, and yet also ordered the censorship of certain texts. They discuss the library's organization, its famous calligraphers and illuminators, and the fate of its treasures after the empire's decline. The episode…
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