Every Indian who has ever translated a text into English owes something to Shah Jahan’s eldest son Prince Dara Shikoh,August 30, is a date we should remember with national melancholy. His works Majma-‘ul-Bahrain (The Mingling of the Two Oceans),Sakinatul Auliya, a collection of biographical sketches of Muslim saints,Sirr-e-Akbar (The Greatest Mystery) for translating Sanskrit texts, Aurangzeb declared Dara heretic who deserved to die…..
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