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Knowledge Nugget: Dara Shikoh, Aurangzeb, and the Mughal War of Succession — All you need to know for UPSC

March 25, 2025 12:29 pm

On Dara Shikoh’s birth anniversary and amid ongoing debates on Aurangzeb, let’s revisit a crucial chapter of Mughal history— the War of Succession.

Partition museum opening to coincide with 76th Independence Day: Manish Sisodia

February 18, 2023 9:38 am

The museum would offer an immersive virtual reality experience, which would allow visitors to explore partition memories from the people. Witnessing the same rail coaches, ancient havelis, and replicas of refugee camps would be exciting and nostalgic for many, said the minister.

Restored Dara Shikoh Library with Partition museum to open this year at Ambedkar University

September 17, 2022 9:02 am

Work on the ‘partition museum’ in the restored building and outside on the garden around it began about a month ago, said Kishwar Desai of The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust.

Dara Shikoh never became emperor. But he was a true child of India

September 02, 2021 7:17 am

Tariq Mansoor writes: With his pluralistic outlook and interest in different faiths, art and architecture, he had a deep understanding of India’s syncretic culture

Explained: Why government wants to locate Dara Shikoh tomb, and why it’s not easy

Explained: Why the govt wants to locate Dara Shikoh tomb, and why it’s not easy

February 19, 2020 8:12 am

Dara Shikoh is described as a “liberal Muslim” who tried to find commonalities between Hindu and Islamic traditions. He translated into Persian the Bhagavad Gita as well as 52 Upanishads.

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Supriya Gandhi: 'Difficult to call Dara Shukoh liberal or secular’

February 06, 2020 1:31 pm

The historian on why modern concepts can’t be read into the past, history as battleground and her new book on a romanticised Mughal prince.

A Mughal prince and the pandits of Benares

December 05, 2019 10:41 am

Dara Shukoh worked with Sanskrit scholars to translate the Upanishads to Persian — an example of the closely intertwined histories of Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu.

Two performances in capital to celebrate decade of Dastangoi

April 04, 2015 3:31 am

A dastan on Mughal prince Dara Shikoh was performed on Friday at Ambedkar University.

Theatre walk: A mughal story unfolds as you move with characters

July 23, 2014 4:04 pm

A theatre walk takes the route less travelled as it lifts cues from history to tell a story

Gandhi on Dara

March 26, 2013 3:09 am

It was a fitting finale to a rare seminar organised by the Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind) on the life of Dara Shikoh,the philosopher-Mughal prince,who was murdered by his younger brother Aurangzeb in the 17th century.