Nine Years of Penance: How Jadunath Sarkar Wrote "India of Aurangzib"

This is the definitive story narrating the kind of superhuman effort that Acharya Jadunath Sarkar put in to produce his seminal masterpiece, "India of Aurangzib."

JADUNATH FIRST SELECTED the early Mughal period of Indian History, but realising that this involved an extremely wide field, decided to work on Aurangzib’s life, a subject which was full of varied incidents and offered a virgin field for investigation, as it had not till then been attempted by anyone else.

He at once set himself to collecting original ma…