History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c85.s6.53

v5.c85.s6.53

Visits to these periodical fairs and seats of pilgrimage were the sole joy of the Indian village population, and men and women were passionately eager to undertake them. Pilgrim-centres like Ajmir, Kulbarga, Nizam-ud-din Auliya, and Burhanpur for the Muslims, and Mathura, Allahabad, Benares, Nasik, Madura and Tanjore for the Hindus, served also to diffuse culture and to break down provincial isolation and narrowness of mental horizon.