Aurangzeb considered himself "The Scourge Of
The Kafirs" (non-believers) and closed Hindu schools and libraries. In his
lifetime he destroyed more than 10,000 Hindu, Buddhist and Jam temples and
often erected mosques in their stead.3 In 1669 in Agra he had hacked off the
limbs of the recalcitrant Hindu King Gokla and in 1672 several thousand
revolting Hindus were slaughtered in Mewat.
From: Maasi-i-Alamgiri
- Issued general order to destroy all
centers of Hindu learnings including Varnasi and destroyed the temple at
Mathura and renamed it as Islamabad
- In Khandela (rajastan) he killed 300
Hindus in one day for they resisted the destruction of their temple.
- In Udaipur all Hindus of the town were
killed as they vowed to defend the temple of Udaipur from destruction.
- 172 temples were destroyed in Udaipur.
- 66 temples were pulled down in Amber. All
Hindu clerks were dismissed from the office of the Imperial empire.
- In Pandhpur , Maharashtra, the Emperor
ordered and executed the destruction of temple and butchering of cows
within the temple.
Aurangazeb also tortured to death the
disciples of Guru Tegh bahadur before his death and also killed Guru. Guru
Tegh Bahadur - the pride of Hindustan was martyred for he spoke for the
persecuted Hindus of Hindustan. Aurangazeb also killed Guru Gobind singh's
two children aged less than ten by walling them alive for not accepting the
choice of Islam. In Punjab Muslim governors killed hundreds of Sikh children
and made Sikh women eat the flesh of their own killed children. Banda
Bahadur another great Sikh martyr before being torturd to death was also
made to eat the flesh of his own children killed before his eyes. Any Muslim
bringing the head of a dead Sikh was also awarded money.