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Aurangabad is a medieval Indian town named after Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, who established this town during his tenure as the Viceroy of the Deccan (Dakhin), a geographical region comprising parts of modern-day Maharashtra, Telangana and Karnataka.
In 1686, the East India Company, which had unsuccessfully tried to obtain a firman that would grant them regular trading privileges throughout the Mughal Empire, initiated the Anglo-Mughal War. [181] This war ended in disaster for the English after Aurangzeb in 1689 dispatched a large fleet from Janjira that blockaded Bombay.
During the Mughal era, Aurangabad had an estimated population of 200,000 people, living in 54 suburbs. [21] In 1724, Asaf Jah, a Mughal general and Nizam al-Mulk in the Deccan region, decided to secede from the crumbling Mughal Empire, with the intention of founding his own dynasty in the Deccan.
Aurangabadi Mahal either belonged to Aurangabad, [3] or had entered Aurangzeb's harem in the city of Aurangabad. [4] She was either Georgian or Circassian by origin (see Black Sea slave trade). [5]
Qila-e-Ark is a 17th-century palace/citadel complex in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. Built by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb when he was a prince, it served as his royal residence during his subsequent reign as emperor. The site is currently ruined, and has no legal protected status; several modern-day buildings also encroach the complex.
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan Plateau in South India.
During Aurangzeb's rule, Pahad Singh, with his valor and strategic skills, demonstrated his loyalty to the Mughal Empire, eventually relocating to Aurangabad during this period. This account is further substantiated by the presence of a memorial dedicated to Bhau Lala Hardaul, a brother of Pahad Singh, located on the outskirts of the building.
Under Mughal control, the Daulatabad fort thereafter acted as a grain warehouse supplying Mughal troops headed towards the south of the Indian subcontinent. [12] It served as the main headquarters of the Mughals in the Deccan, until Aurangzeb shifted the headquarters to Aurangabad in 1653. [13] However, resistance in the region continued.