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Podcast: Bharatvaarta
Episode: Aurangzeb, Whitewashing & India’s Forgotten Truths | Saurabh Lohogaonkar – Author
Description: Aurangzeb, History & the Politics of Memory – Saurabh Lohogaonkar on India’s Distorted Past ⚔️📖
Aurangzeb remains one of the most polarizing figures in Indian history — remembered as both an emperor and a tyrant, a ruler and a destroyer. But what happens when centuries later, his legacy is rewritten to fit modern political comfort?
In this thought-provoking conversation, Saurabh Lohogaonkar joins host Roshan Cariappa to unpack how India’s history has been selectively sanitized — how tyrants became “administrators,” persecution was reframed as “policy,” and why the truth about Aurangzeb still makes us uneasy today.
Lohogaonkar argues that whitewashing history doesn’t heal wounds — it deepens th...