Aurangzeb rules…in Germany!
From the Blog pakteahouse *By Ghazala Akbar* To most people, the city of Dresden in Saxony, Germany is notable for its exquisite porcelain. Some might remember too, its apocalyptic destruction by Allied planes in the last days of World War II. More recently, it has been in the news, for its strident marches against radical Islam by an organisation known as PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against Islamisation of the West.) Not widely known perhaps is that one Dresden’s splendid museums, the Green Vault (Grunes Gevolbe) is home to an extraordinary work of art – a hand-crafted miniature model of the Court of Aurangzeb, featuring the seventh Mughal Emperor of Hindustan (1658-1707) in all his earthly glory. [image: aurengzeb] Given that ethnic Germans, unlike their other European counterparts weren’t seafarerspakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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