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Aurangzeb's Spies: The Empire's Hidden Eyes
In a realm stretching from Kabul to the Deccan, Aurangzeb relied on an intricate network of spies and informants to keep his grip on power. This episode follows the emperor's intelligence machine: the royal news-writers (waqia-nawis) who documented every court session, the secret reporters (khufia-nawis) who shadowed nobles, and the postal runners who carried their dispatches across thousands of miles. We meet Munshi Muhammad Israfil, a news-writer in the Deccan whose reports survive in Persian archives, and learn how Aurangzeb personally read and annotated them, even during military…
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