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Write brief essay on Dara Shikoh.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

Dara Shikoh (1615–1659), eldest son of Shah Jahan, embodied a road the Mughal Empire did not take — an intellectually syncretic, politically inclusive vision of kingship cut short at Aurangzeb's hands.

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  • Political Career and Fall
  • The Architect of a Syncretic Mysticism
  • Patron of Art and Architecture

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