Abstract:

Aurangzeb murdered two brothers to Inherit the throne and imprisoned his father. He greatly extended the Moghul Empire but his attempts to impose the strict tenets of Islamic low and custom on a community which was largely Hindu had disastrous consequences. Part 6 of the elaborate six part documentary series "THE GREAT MOGHULS" that tells the dramatic story of the rise of the Moghul Empire. Over six generations, father to son, they captured, consolidated, and profoundly influenced control of the vast sub-continent of India. They ruled it with such extravagance and style that even in their own time they were known to Europeans as the Great Moghuls. Their family life was full of deceit and murder, and their deeds of treachery add up to an irresistibly exotic oriental melodrama. At the same time their exquisite art and architecture was a cultural achievement to rival that of the Medici. It includes the world’s most beautiful building - the Taj Mahal, the palace city - Fatehpur Sikri, water gardens in Kashmir, and the marble palaces in the Red Fort in Delhi, Agra and Lahore