![]() But Dara was also trying to establish the fact that he had some spiritual gifts that no emperor before him had. To an extent, Dara did model himself on his great-grandfather Akbar, who also wove together diverse cultural and religious strands into his court. So, it is easy, in the present day, to pull out the idea that Dara Shukoh wanted Hindu-Muslim harmony throughout the subcontinent. That ended up being his last work because soon his father fell ill and the struggle for succession started. When he finally thought he had arrived at this fount, it was through the Upanishads. One of the things he wanted to do was to find the fount of pure monotheism. In the latter part of his life, his own spiritual refashioning became closely entangled with his deep interest in Indic thought. There is absolutely no doubt that he devoted his life to studying and to his own spiritual advancement. ![]() ![]() In this approach, he seems to represent a kind of a lost era of harmony. One way of reading Dara Shukoh is to look upon him in a rather nostalgic fashion as a pre-modern liberal. ![]()
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