@audreytruschke I'm stretching the what-ifs to an event that happened very long ago. How do you judge Dara Shikoh? Is it possible to use historical tools to speculate how the Mughal-Maratha relations would have turned out had Dara Shikoh became the emperor instead of Aurangzeb?*

* I visited Khooni Darwaza ten days ago, so I got reminded of him when I saw your toot.