Aurangzeb did spend money on one extravagant building, the world’s largest mosque at the time – the Badashi Mosque in Lahore. As Aurangzeb was building this mosque, he also put restrictions on ...

The justification of demolishing temples to quell a rebellious group or some perceived deviant behaviour falls flat when a rebel is housed in a mosque. In Aurangzeb’s case too, a Sufi dissident ...