A group of history enthusiasts on Saturday morning gathered near the Town Hall at Chandni Chowk to discuss an important piece of the city’s historical jigsaw puzzle — what is believed to be the last resting place of Dara Shukoh. Sanjeev Kumar Singh, an executive engineer affiliated with the MCD heritage cell, started the day’s history lessons with a walk …
In an uncomfortable dichotomy with some bearing on real-life perceptions of Muslims, Dara Shukoh is remembered as a translator of the Upanishads, and religiously syncretic to the core, whereas an archetypal Aurangzeb destroyed temples and imposed Jizya on non-Muslims even as he ruled by Sharia law. The renewed contemporary interest in Dara Shukoh [also spelt Shikoh>, the erstwhile ‘mystic prince’ …
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