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Read all her tweets and watch some of her interviews on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOS43zILE8w), she is a great historian that has been targeted by the Indian Hindu right wing for supporting the truth. She must be given a high platform to speak the truth louder and wider.
Fluent in Sanskrit and knowledgable in Persian, she is the author of Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit in the Mughal Court, Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth and Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King - Please purchase a copy to read, and share it with everyone who's interested. She MUST be invited to speak in Pakistan and the government must promote her.
While there are controversies surrounding him, alot of them are unsubstantiated alot of them not. He was a leader like any leader during the time but he valued Islamic scholarship and valued the Ulema where previous scholars of the past did not.
He compiled the largest list of hanafi fatawa till that time with the help of Shah Waliullah Dehlvi called fatawa e alamgiri, reestablished shari'ah in India which his predecessors got rid of, eliminated court musicians and dancers, he had strong ties and links to islamic scholarship. In my opinion of the Mughal emperors he was the best, but at the end of the day he was still an emperor.
I recommend reading Aurangzeb: the life and legacy of India's most controversial king