How to Build a Villain: Aurangzeb, Temple Destruction, and his Modern Reputation

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dc.contributor.authorMurdoch, Maximilian Fieldingen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-20T16:32:37Zen_US
dc.date.available2018-02-20T16:32:37Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.descriptionSubmission to the Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards, 2018.en_US
dc.descriptionThis paper was originally prepared for Course Hist 207, Fall 2017: Spatial History and Historical GIS, given by Professor S. Wright Kennedy, Department of History.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper is a study of the spatial relationship between temples destroyed in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707) and other significant spatial characteristics of the Mughal Empire in his time, including its southern border and the geographic distribution of religious groups. It also places these relationships in the context of the contemporary political narrative as well the current one. Using an ArcGIS project built to explore the spatial relationship, this paper tests the hypothesis that temple destruction under Aurangzeb was religiously motivated, and concludes that this hypothesis ought to be rejected. Work from other scholars in the field illustrates why this hypothesis is none the less deeply ingrained in India’s modern political landscape, and how that came to pass.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMurdoch, Maximilian Fielding. "How to Build a Villain: Aurangzeb, Temple Destruction, and his Modern Reputation." (2018) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/99278">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/99278</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalMurdochen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/99278en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordspatial relationshipsen_US
dc.titleHow to Build a Villain: Aurangzeb, Temple Destruction, and his Modern Reputationen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.genreResearch paperen_US
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