Mughal Empire Aurangzeb gold Mohur dated regnal year 18.
1085h (1676), mint of Solapur.
Aurangzeb, 1658 — 1707.
Gold Mohur, Sholapur Mint
Regnal year 18 — 1085h (1676).
Obv. Persian script - Rulers’s titles and date.
Rev. Persian script — mint epithet, regnal year.
Good Extremely Fine, well struck with crisp definition.
22mm
0.01100kg
Ref: KM 315.43
Superb condition coin with crisply clear ruler’s name, date and mint and border design showing. Outstanding!
Aurangzeb's reign falls into two almost equal parts, In the first, which lasted until about 1680, he wae a capable Muslim monarch of a mixed Hindu-Muslim empire and as such was generally disliked for his ruthlessness but feared and respected for his vigour and skill. During this period he was much occupied with safeguarding the north-west from Persians and Central Asian Turks and less so with the Maratha chlef Shivaji, who twice plundered the great port of Surat (1664, 1670). Aurangzeb applied his great-grandfather Akbar's recipe for conquest: defeat one's enemies, reconcile them, and place them in imperial service. Thus, Shivaji was defeated, called to Agra for reconciliation (1666), and given an imperial rank, The plan broke down, however; Shivaji fled to the Deccan and died, in 1680, ae the ruler of an independent Maratha kingdom, After about 1680, Aurangzeb’s reign underwent a change of both attitude and policy. The plous ruler of an Islamic state replaced the seasoned statesman of 3 mixed kingdom; Hindus became subordinates, not colleagues, and the Marathas, like the southern Muslim kingdoms, were marked for annexation rather than containment. The first overt sign of change was the ra-imposition of the jizya, or poll tax, on non-Muslims in 1679 (a tax that had been abolished by Akbar). This in turn was followed by a Rajput revolt in 1680-81, supported by Aurangzeb's third son, Akbar.
Hindus still served the empire, but no longer with enthusiasm, The Deccan kingdoms of Bijapur and Golconda were conquered In 1686-87, but the insecurity that followed precipitated a long-inciplent economic crisis, which in turn was deepened by warfare with the Marathas. Shivaji’ son Sambhaji was captured and executed in 1689 and his kingdom broken up. The Marathas, however, then adopted guerrilla tactics, spreading all over southern India amid a sympathetic population. The rest of Aurangzeb’s life was spent in laborious and fruitless sieges of forts in the Maratha hill country.
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