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The brief period of supreme magnificence came to an end with the last of the "Great" Moguls -- Aurungzeb, died in
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Agra, Rose to importance under the Moguls, becoming their seat of government after Akbar quitted the city he had built, Fatehpur-Sighri, until Aurungzeb removed the seat of government to Delhi.
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Bernier, F., a Frenchman attached to the court of Aurungzeb as medical adviser; wrote _Voyage à Kachemire_.
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Their ruined state is partly due to earthquakes, but probably still more to the iconoclastic activity of Sikandar (_d. _ 1416) and Aurungzeb.
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Leaving the fort after an all too short visit, we crossed to the great mosque built by Aurungzeb.
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He was the first of the six "Great" Moguls (the others being Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, Shah Jehan, and Aurungzeb), who ruled India with unparalleled magnificence for 150 years.
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Jehan and Aurungzeb and who was interviewed by Bernier.
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Aurungzeb, The last of the six "Great Moguls"; deposed and imprisoned his predecessor Shah Jehan in 1658, and reigned until 1707.
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The profession of their faith became a capital offence, and it was only the decline of the Mogul power, after the death of Aurungzeb in 1797, which enabled them to survive.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The overthrow of this dynasty was brought about by the disastrous reign of Baber's successor Aurungzeb, a cruel, crafty and treacherous despot, who following the example of his ancestor Timur, spread terror and alarm around him in the second half of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries.
Akbar Emperor of India Garbe, Richard Von 1909
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