Aurangzeb built more temples than he destroyed
Music flourished in India during Aurangzeb’s reign
Aurangzeb employed more Hindus (including Shivaji) than any other Mughal
Aurangzeb’s mother tongue was Hindi
The jizya tax wasn’t unusually discriminatory for its time
The Muslim counterpart to the religious tax of jizya was the zakat, or alms tax, also to be paid over and above normal taxes.
Mughals still mostly wrote in Persian, which was the official language of the day.
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