New Delhi, India – Data Sherk has not left his house in the past two days and feared his family’s safety. The vehicles were parked in the corridor where he lived in Hindu sectarian clashes.

Busty is a mile (about 1.5 km), Aslam, who only asked to identify him with his first name, is terrified. He avoids going home, where he lives with his wife and mother, because he is afraid to be arrested by the police, who says he is holding innocent Muslims. He said: “I did not do anything.

Both Najbur residents, a city of three million people in the West Indian state of Mahara, where violence erupted on Monday around the future of the tomb of the Mongol ruler, which was in the seventeenth century.

The police imposed a curfew and more than 50 people – most of them Muslims – were arrested in raids before a visit on March 30 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Najbour. The city also hosts the headquarters of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata party from Modi and its Hindu -Understanding allies.

So why does the famous city explode throughout India for its orange into clashes between religions? Who was Aurangzeb? And why is his legacy still divided India?

Why Najbur erupted in violence?

Last week, the Baharatia Gatata parliamentarians of Maharashtra raised an invitation to dig the tomb of the Mongol Emperor.

Nearly 100 volunteers linked to the right -right group, Fisha Hindo Parish (VHP), made a protest in Nagbur on Monday, calling for the demolition of the grave of Urangazib, who say discrimination against Hindus and attacked their places of worship during his rule from 1658 to 1707.

“This grave is a black place in our homeland,” said Amit Bagbay, VHP spokesman, who was also a protest organizer. “We gathered near a box and burned the Organquep doll wrapped with a green cloth in the presence of the police.”

He added: “It is our democratic right to claim what we feel right.”

But other spectators, including the owners of Islamic stores, demanded the police to stop the demonstration, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, Asif Quraishi, the lawyer and former head of the Barrashtra Bar Council, who lives in the neighborhood.

Rumors that the green fabric used to wrap a doll had the verses of the Qur’an written on it, which angered Muslims. In that evening, after breaking their fasting and providing the prayers of Morocco, groups of Muslim useful counter -counter were asking the police to register a case against VHP members.

“Unfortunately, things quickly went out of control and angry people began to engage,” Quraishi said to meet Al -Jazeera.

Since then, there has been a curfew in place, with police grains that are divided into part of the city where the clashes erupted. The police campaign was followed. Qureshi said that the police should arrest Muslims who participated in the clashes, but instead, “I arrested the innocent, who were abroad to provide prayers.”

After the clashes, Bajpai from VHP said he was smoking. “Now we will be more difficult [Muslims] Do you think they can intimidate us through riots? We want Aurangzeb to go here. “

Meanwhile, Divindra Fadenafis, Prime Minister of Maharashtra, Devindra Fadenfis, seemed to indicate that the latest Bollywood movie depicts Uranquit as a villain who may have played a role in exaggerating Hindu feelings. Chhava, the film, perceives the battles between the Mongol ruler and Marathas, who ruled large parts of the current Maharashtra. Fadiafis said the film brought “general anger against Uranzub” at the forefront. Fadnavis also belongs to BJP’s PM Modi.

Who was Aurangzeb?

One of the most powerful rulers who rule the Indian subcontinent, the tomb of Uranzep is not in Nagbur. It is more than 450 km (280 miles) from Nagpur, in a city called until 2023 on the name of the ruler – Aurangabad – since then Christrapi Sambhajinagar has been named.

The name was changed under pressure from the collections of the Hindu majority, which has long looked at Aurangzeb as the bloody villain in modern India’s history. But historians argue that he had a more complicated legacy than the depicting of Uranquit, who dominates India today.

Uranzib inherited a strong empire, as he climbed after his father’s imprisonment and killed his older brother. Audrey Trouchki, a historian and author of the book “Uranzepper: Man and Legend”, said that the thirsty emperor of power was unprecedented in the battlefield of his time and is excellent in building alliances.

Troch said that his policies were severely affected by another Mughal emperor, his grandfather, the biggest adult.

“Aurangzeb has brought all types of groups in the empire – as a prince, traveled throughout the empire and read it;

But Aurangzeb also imposed difficult Islamic laws and had a discriminatory tax needed by the Hindu population to pay for protection. “Uranzib was a very complicated king, with many parties,” said Trusk.

While Hindus often depicts Urangazib as a religious fanatic, Trusk said, the Mongol Emperor has repeatedly showed during his rule that he was not driven by faith – but by power. “Whenever piety and power contradicts, he chose power,” she said. “every time.”

Why Aurangzeb is an exciting disagreement in India?

Many historians have indicated that, as a rule, kings were not democratic at the time. In many ways, Trusk said, “Urganquib was not particularly deviant from the Indian kings in the pre -modern period.”

But the British colonists have distorted it. She added that the Hindu nationalist movement to which the Bharatia Jatata and RSS party belongs to “mainly propaganda in the colonial era.”

These anti -Angels are increasingly playing in aggressive and even violent ways.

In 2024, four people were arrested for raising Aurangzeb stickers in a procession. In June 2023, an Instagram post fell to the ruler, a 14 -year -old Muslim boy in prison. In 2022, the Moody government changed textbooks in middle schools and secondary schools, cutting pieces of semesters from the Mughal Empire, including removing a table separating emperors’ achievements such as Uranzib and his jade.

For many supporters of Modi and his policy, Aurangzeb is not only the date. It is widely believed to have defended the demolition of many temples – but it is also known to have provided grants and lands for other Hindu shrines.

Now, the Hindu nationalists have submitted a demand for the Giannafabi Mosque in Varanasi, the parliamentary circle in Modi, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. They claim that the mosque was built on the ruins of the Vicwanat Temple, a large Hindu shrine in the sixteenth century that was destroyed in 1669 based on the orders of Aurangzeb.

In the processing of an event in Varanasi in 2022, PM Modi talked about “Aurangzeb Atrocketies, ERORTH”, adding that he “tried to change civilization with the sword. Modi himself has since called his name several times.

A day after the clashes in Nagbur, Fadadavis, Prime Minister of Maharashtra, said, “It is unfortunate that the government must bear the responsibility for protecting the tomb of Uranbbe, despite its history of persecution.”

The Aurangzeb tomb is protected as a memorial to the national importance by the archaeological survey of India under the 1958 law, which protects it from unauthorized amendments or demolition.

As tensions continued in low heat in Nagbur, the local residents and activists fear that more violence will be around the corner.

Sherk said: “There is no confidence or faith in each other.” “I cannot trust that my neighbor is not waiting for my family to harm the next opportunity they get.” Qureshi said that the Muslim population lives in fear of raids, and they hope that the state authorities will deal with the situation without bias.

For truschke, though, the obsession with the Hindu majority of history revolves around the hatred of that movement for Muslims, whether in the past or present. She said that knowledge of history is very important to understand how societies and countries are formed. “But the litigation of what may happen in the seventeenth century is a crazy idea.”