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title: "Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India"  
description: "Many people assume that history is an impersonal record of past events; a dull roll call of facts, events and figures. Here's some of the messed up things"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-06  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1771/top-7-messed-up-things-done-by-mughal-kings-in-india  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Mughals", "Mughal Kings", "messed up things", "Mughals in India"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India

![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/c298e042-2669-494c-92e8-d86be4819192.jpeg) ![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/9c3aceae-ab8b-4893-82f0-add63b6fa765.jpeg) Aurangzeb built more temples than he destroyed ![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/84b6832b-94d8-4cfd-bcca-a490bc678d69.jpeg) Music flourished in India during Aurangzeb’s reign ![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/e72b1b6c-e6eb-425f-a034-053be978d1db.jpeg) Aurangzeb employed more Hindus (including Shivaji) than any other Mughal ![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/734a1cef-e19f-4b07-9add-cad0ca2a3ca0.jpeg) Aurangzeb’s mother tongue was Hindi ![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/3882674b-3c15-4663-9923-fe42c6de21e3.jpeg) The jizya tax wasn’t unusually discriminatory for its time ![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/68fafe8d-8d36-4016-84ea-bd6212bf11e8.jpeg) The Muslim counterpart to the religious tax of jizya was the zakat, or alms tax, also to be paid over and above normal taxes. ![Top 7 Messed Up Things Done By Mughal Kings In India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/2d794be5-70e7-4a80-a470-5802ddf83bb4/images/c298e042-2669-494c-92e8-d86be4819192.jpeg) Mughals still mostly wrote in Persian, which was the official language of the day.

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