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The commercial success of Chhaava, a drama about the life of the Maratha ruler Sambhaji, seems to have fuelled many political and historical flames. People scrambled to dig up Asirgarh Fort since the ...

Paramilitary personnel keep vigil as curfew remains in effect in 10 police station limits on the second consecutive day following the violence erupted on 17 March, in Nagpur on Wednesday.

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The tensions showed how right-wing Hindu leaders and organizations in India use historical grievances to fuel contemporary tensions. By Hari Kumar Anupreeta Das and Pragati K.B. Reporting from New ...

Mughal ruler Aurangzeb has been dominating the political discourse in Maharashtra since the release of the Bollywood movie Chhaava, based on the life of Maratha king Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and ...

In overnight clashes in Nagpur's Mahal area, cars were set on fire, stones were thrown and over a dozen were injured. At the centre of the violence is a stone structure less than three yards in ...

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Authorities in Nagpur, India imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of the city after clashes ensued over demands by Hindu nationalist groups to demolish the tomb of a 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler.

Aurangzeb, one of the most controversial figures in Indian history, died in Ahmednagar (officially Ahilyanagar) -- a city in the west-central part of Maharashtra, some 130 kilometers from his place of ...