Aurangzeb Alamgir (1658 – 1707)
• At the time of Shahjahan’s illness, Dara was in Delhi and the other brothers were in different places – Shuja in Bengal, Murad in Gujarat and Aurangzeb in Deccan.
• Aurangzeb first defeated the Imperial army in the Battle of Dharmat and then defeated a force led by Dara in the Battle of Samugarh
• He caused serious rift in the Mughal-Rajput alliance by his policy of annexation of Marwar in 1639 after the dea of Raja Jaswant Singh.
• In 1675, he ordered the arrest and execution of ninth Sikh guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur.
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