The book’s gravest shortcoming lies not in errors like this one, but in a failure to prove its case
-From Scroll
I read this overhyped book’ Aurangzeb-The man and the Myth’ last Saturday in the single sitting . I was expecting much more elegant stuff from Ms. Truschke as I have read her magnificent book on the Sanskrit in the Mughal court. I liked the earlier one very very much as it was having new approach novel findings and elegance . But her current one disappointed me entirely
The part in this book I liked was her portrayal of the Aurangzeb’s obsession about justice and his hypocrisy and manipulations while delivering it.
I don’t mean to say that the writer is trying to whitewash this bigot but her attempt is to portray him in the grey shades with his virtues and vices and to present him as a man of his own times. But she had failed miserably in this task.
by sachinketkar