CNN
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Despite being dead for more than 300 years, this Indian ruler is still making waves in the nation’s politics.
Aurangzeb Alamgir has become so central to India’s fraught political moment, his memory is leading to sectarian violence across the country.
The sixth emperor of the famed Mughal dynasty, he is considered by many detractors to be a tyrant who brutalized women, razed Hindu temples, forced religious conversions and waged wars against Hindu and Sikh rulers.
And in a nation now almost entirely under the grip of Hindu nationalists, Aurangzeb’s “crimes” have been seized upon by right-wing politicians, turning him into the…
