Audrey Truschke on row over Aurangzeb book: 'I remain committed to dispassionate history'
7 years, 10 months ago

Audrey Truschke on row over Aurangzeb book: 'I remain committed to dispassionate history'

Firstpost  

Historian Audrey Truschke says she wrote her book on Aurangzeb, which has triggered quite the backlash, because she felt there was a hunger among some in India for a balanced, historically-based view of the Mughal emperor Scrolling through Audrey Truschke’s Twitter timeline is somewhat exhausting. The assistant professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University-Newark has been at the receiving end of a social media backlash ever since her book — Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth — was published earlier this year. In an email interview with Firstpost, Truschke spoke about the row over her book: Did you expect quite the backlash there’s been to Aurangzeb? The sustained response to my brief comments on Aurangzeb prompted me to see an opportunity to provide interested readers with a more nuanced, compelling story regarding this crucial king.

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INTERVIEW | Ignorance about historical Aurangzeb, anti-Muslim hate undergird calls to destroy his tomb: Audrey Truschke
1 week, 3 days ago

INTERVIEW | Ignorance about historical Aurangzeb, anti-Muslim hate undergird calls to destroy his tomb: Audrey Truschke

New Indian Express  

“The rich may well construct domes of gold and silver on their graves! Aurangzeb, the longest reigning Mughal emperor who ruled over one of the largest empires in Indian history, has been a controversial figure and can be easily tagged as the "most hated" of Indian rulers. Swaying away from usual demonic representations of Aurangzeb, eminent historian and professor at …

India’s Hindu nationalists use a long-dead Muslim emperor as a rallying cry
2 years, 9 months ago

India’s Hindu nationalists use a long-dead Muslim emperor as a rallying cry

LA Times  

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rose from his chair and walked briskly toward the podium to deliver another nighttime address to the nation. “For today’s Hindu nationalists, Aurangzeb is a dog whistle for hating all Indian Muslims,” said Audrey Truschke, historian and author of the book “Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth.” Hating and disparaging Muslim rulers, particularly the Mughals, …

Audrey Truschke: ‘I am not alone in refusing to sway with the Indian political winds’
4 years ago

Audrey Truschke: ‘I am not alone in refusing to sway with the Indian political winds’

The Hindu  

IN the past half a decade or so, the noted historian Audrey Truschke has caught the media attention unlike any other. In many ways, Audrey Truschke’s third and newest work, The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts, takes the argument of Culture of Encounters further. In my case, the interruption consumed several years as I researched, wrote and …

Hyderabad: Lecture by Pro Aurangzeb ‘historian’ cancelled after protest against her anti-Hindu views
6 years, 7 months ago

Hyderabad: Lecture by Pro Aurangzeb ‘historian’ cancelled after protest against her anti-Hindu views

Op India  

The Hyderabad Police have denied permission to Historian Audrey Truschke to deliver a talk which was scheduled for August 11 in the city. Audrey Truschke who is known to be controversial and an apologist for the Islamic Mughal invaders has been schooled several times for her ignorance on the subject of Indian history. The controversial writer was supposed to talk …

Gujarat Polls: Why Twisting Aurangzeb’s Tale Is a Foolish Quest
7 years, 3 months ago

Gujarat Polls: Why Twisting Aurangzeb’s Tale Is a Foolish Quest

The Quint  

Indian politics, especially the kind that is unleashed during electoral campaigns, is a cesspool of lies and half-truths in which the practitioners dip their hands, expecting gains. Just as the historian and the facts of history are ‘necessary’ to one another, so is the relationship between a politician and the facts that he seeks to make use of. Carr wrote …

Audrey Truschke | The historian who engages
7 years, 5 months ago

Audrey Truschke | The historian who engages

Live Mint  

Over a VOIP call from her offices at Rutgers University in the United States, Audrey Truschke, South Asia historian, speaks about her latest book, Aurangzeb: The man and the myth, her personal interest in South Asian history, and why she continues to persist with social media engagement. I am aided in being able to teach roughly four to five thousand …

Aurangzeb book gets historian Audrey Truschke into social media row
7 years, 11 months ago

Aurangzeb book gets historian Audrey Truschke into social media row

Firstpost  

In the book, Audrey Truschke tackles the demonisation of this Mughal emperor by people on social media; she has been accused of misleading readers and causing unrest. Audrey Truschke’s book Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King, which tries to undo the demonisation of the Mughal emperor by people on social media, has come under fire on …

Akshaya Mukul reviews Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth by Audrey Truschke
8 years ago

Akshaya Mukul reviews Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth by Audrey Truschke

The Hindu  

Among the Mughal rulers, Babur and Aurangzeb are the most popular in social media among Bhakts of an ideology that has been working hard for the last three years to foist Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan as the sole narrative of a country where custom, costume and customary beliefs change every few kilometres. Therefore, it is interesting that the idea of Audrey …

New perspectives on Aurangzeb
8 years ago

New perspectives on Aurangzeb

The Hindu  

“I CAME as a stranger, and I leave as a stranger,” wrote the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in a letter to one of his sons sometime before his death. Although Dalrymple’s book was essentially about paintings and the arts, his essay showed that Aurangzeb’s rule was “less tyrannical than previously thought”. New territories annexed included Little Tibet beyond Kashmir in …

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