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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Secular Law.
- Aurangzeb issued secular decrees, called 'zawabit'.
- A collection of his decrees had been collected in a work known as Zawabit-i-Alamgiri.
- Aurangzeb (1658-1707):
- He was the sixth Mughal Emperor.
- He executed the ninth Sikh guru Guru Tegh Bahadur in 1675 AD.
- He was a puritan, and he abolished all practices in the court which were not in conformity with the injunctions of Islam.
- He reimposed Jizya in 1679 AD.
- Aurangzeb was the son of Shah Jahan.
- The 'Bibi Ka Maqbara', a tomb of Aurangzeb's wife is situated in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
- He abolished inland transit duties which were called pandhari.
- He forbade the cultivation of Bhang.
- He abolished NUROZ (Persian festival).
- Mughal Emperor Akbar abolished the pilgrimage tax on Hindus and again reimposed during the reign of Aurangzeb.
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