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  Sawai Madhopur city of Rajasthan - India
Later his successor Vagabhatta, beautified the city and built a noteworthy temple at Jhain.
In the middle of the 15th century A.D. Rana Kumbha captured the fort and gifted it to his son to be occupied later by the Hada Rajputs of Bundi and Mughal Emperors Akbar and Aurangazeb.
Mughal Emperor Shah Alam gifted it to Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh I of Jaipur in 1754 and since then it was maintained as the hunting preserve of the Maharaja.
www.bharatheritage.in /rajasthan/sawai_madhopur.htm   (513 words)

  
 India Catalog.Com City Guide - Hyderabad
In 1687, the fortress was besieged by the mighty moguls emperor Aurangazeb, after it was treacherously betrayed.
The main citadel is built on a granite hill 120 mts high and is surrounded by walls of solid stones.
The Tombs of Asaf Jahi rulers, the Nizams of Hyderabad, are in a roof enclosure to the left of the court yard of the mosque.
www.indiacatalog.com /cityguide/hyderabad.html   (861 words)

  
 Hindu Unity's CRIMINALS HIT LIST !
Pande apparently wrote that a Nepalese princess was entrusted to the care of Aurangazeb; he put her in the Kashi temple.
To avenge her honour Aurangazeb destroyed the temple.
I do not know whether the historian had actually written these things or Ayer is making it up, but someone is lying their heads off.
www.hinduunity.com /hitlist.html   (3852 words)

  
 VOLUME I - PART III - CHAPTER I. - MISSIONS IN MADHYA PRADESH AND INDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1669 he issued orders “to the Government of all provinces to demolish the schools and temples of infidels and put down their teaching and religious practices strongly”.
In 1679 Aurangazeb reimposed “the Jizya Tax on the unbelievers with the object of spreading Islam and overthrowing infidel practices”.
People were encouraged to embrace Islam by the offer “of grants to converts or of jobs in Government employ, or of liberation from prison”.
www.voiceofdharma.com /books/ncr/7vipiii.htm   (13847 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/British East India Company
This victory estranged the British and the Mughals, who had been served by Siraj as an autonomous ruler.
But the Mughal empire was already on the wane after the demise of Aurangazeb, and was breaking up into pieces and enclaves.
After the Battle of Buxar, Shah Alam, the ruling emperor, gave up the administrative rights over Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/British_East_India_Company   (3274 words)

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