How Acharya Jadunath Sarkar Wrote the History of Aurangzeb

A brief journey exploring the approach, method and discipline that went behind Acharya Jadunath Sarkar's writing his five-volume magnum opus, "History of Aurangzeb."

WITHOUT DOUBT, ACHARYA JADUNATH SARKAR’s five-volume History of Aurangzeb is not only his magnum opus but remains an enduring masterpiece dissecting that Islamic monster to the last cell of his bigoted entrails. It is also a fine specimen of history-writing being elevated to art. As the maxim goes, art first captures us but the discerning connoisseur wi…