New History of the Marathas v1.c12.6

v1.c12.6

Neither age nor experience softened the rigour of Aurangzeb’s religious policy. He confiscated all Hindu religious grants in Gujarat and remained deaf to all pleadings of pity and political expediency alike. When he was the Viceroy of Gujarat he had desecrated the temple of Chintamani at Ahmadabad in 1644 by slaughtering a cow in it and turning it into a mosque.