1. “In the religion of Musalmans, it is improper to even look at a temple” said Aurangzeb when he learnt about the stone railing on Keshav Rai Temples presented by his brother Dara, and immediately ordered to remove it.

In the month of Ramzan he ordered the Keshav Rai temple to be demolished as well and a mosque was built in its place. Source: Maasir-i-Alamgiri

2. In 1661, Aurangzeb sent orders to his viceroy of Bihar, Daud Khãn, to conquer Palamau. In the military operations that followed, many temples were destroyed. 3. Same year Mughals attacked temples during their attack on Raja of kuch Bihar. Many Temples were turned into mosques.

4. The temple of Somnath was destroyed early ni his reign. This seems to have been one of the results of the order sent to his officials in Gujarat dated 20 November, 1665. Source: Mirat-i-Ahmadi 5. Around 1669, Provoked by the building of a new temple in Orissa, officials were

6. Aurangzeb destroyed the lalta temple at Delhi Source: Storia do mogor II by Manucci 7. In the month of January, all the governors and native oflicers received an order from Aurangzeb to prohibit practice of pagan religion throughout the country & closing down all the temples

11. 1672, government agents were sent to all Parganas in Bengal to destroy all Hindu Mandirs. Source: History of Dacca I

12. 1679, right after the death of Maharaja Jaswant Singh, Aurangzeb’s fury broke into vengeance. Dorab Khan was sent to Khandela where he demolished various Temples on 8th March. 13. Khan-i-Jahan was sent to Jodhpur where he demolished many temples. as an evidence of his

14. The royal temple in front of the palace was destroyed while dealing with Rathors of Jodhpur. 15. 1680, Aurangzeb visited Udai Sagar & ordered that the three temples that were standing on the edge of the lake be demolished on 24th Jan 16. On 29 January, it was reported that

Orders were sent to Abu Tarab to demolish temples in Jaipur. 18. 1680, Abu Tarab reached court to inform he has demolished 66 temple in Amber. Source: Jaipur Records II 19. 1681, the superintendent of the labourers was ordered to destroy all the temples on the route from Ajmer

23. When Golkonda was conquered, Aurangzeb destroyed temples in Hyderabad and turned them into mosques. Source: Khafi khan II 24. 14 April, 1692, orders were issued to the provincial governor and the district fojdar to demolish the temples at Rasulpur. 25. 1693, the Haitheswar

27. Bijai Singh and several other Hindus were reported to be carry- ing on public worship of idols in a temple. On 23 June, 1691, the governor of Ajmer was ordered ot destroy the temple and stop the public celebration of idol worship there. 28. In A.D. 1696-97 (1108 A.н.) orders

29. Many soldiers were reported to worship idols in the temple at Purandhar. 1705, orders were given that the temple be desecrated and demolished. 30. The temple of Wakenkhera in the fort was demolished on 2 March, 1705. Sources: Newsletter 2 jan 1705, 2 March 1705

31. Jum'a Masjid at Irach built of materials taken from a Hindu temple. 32. A Saiva temple was converted to mosque. 33. The temples at Gayaspur near Bhilsas and the temple of Khaundai Rão ni Gujarat were also destroyed. 34. In a village in the Sarkär of Sirhind, a Sikh temple was

35. Temple of Kedarpur destroyed & turned to Mosque. 36. The private house of a Rajput, Devi Singh, in ghe pargana of Alup, which was used as a temple, was converted into a mosque. 37. Stopped worshiping at Dwarka Temple Source: Jaipur Records X, Mirat-i-ahmadi 38. Then he

Inspite of so much records and hard evidences Ruchika Be-sharma has so much shameless audacity to say Aurangzeb destroyed only 10 temples. These are the illiterates that are responsible for teaching our next generations.

Will news portal like @thewire_in will have the integrity to show the actual history of Temple destruction? Or else they should rename themselves as “The liar” Someone please count the number of Temples and inform these illiterates.

@SagasofBharat A must read thread 🚩

@Ravitiwariii_ 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@SagasofBharat Yeah..actually can't count ..also many are not included in the history. Example only in Dhaka (then capital of bengal ) he ordered to destroy 100 temples... Imagine then how many in whole of bengal ? And in Hindustan

@Sham_Bharat Even from this list itself you can understand the number of temples that he destroyed. Even this list doesn’t include all.

@SagasofBharat You are a treasure of great historical value. 😎

@DefeatVictory Aww thanks

@SagasofBharat You’re brilliant. Thanks for this. I’m going to have to print it out.

@KJ65101992 😂😂

@SagasofBharat The moment you post something interesting, your reach becomes dead 🙃.

@ionian_spirit07 Ha . I don't know why.

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@Swastik99909 @grok Lol. Grok is useless