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The Great Mughals, as one historian memorably observed, arrived in India from central Asia in the sixteenth century as 'ruddy men in boots'; they left it four centuries later 'pale persons in petticoats'.
But what was built by the tact and conciliation of the first five of the Great Mughals was destroyed by the harsh and repressive rule of the sixth. Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb was a ruler as bigoted as the best of his predecessors had been tolerant.
![As the nineteenth century progressed, such rigidly orthodox views gathered strength in Delhi, and the position of the 'ulama solidified, so that by the 1850s the tolerant Sufi ways of Zafar and his court slowly came to look as old-fashioned and outdated as the hybrid lifestyles and open-minded religious attitudes of the White Mughals [the British who embraced Indian culture] did among the now solidly Evangelical British. The stage was being set for a clash of rival fundamentalisms. - William Dalrymple quote.](/img/q/53/53853A-as-the-nineteenth-century-progressed-such-rigidly-orthodox-views-gathered-william-dalrymple.png)
As the nineteenth century progressed, such rigidly orthodox views gathered strength in Delhi, and the position of the 'ulama solidified, so that by the 1850s the tolerant Sufi ways of Zafar and his court slowly came to look as old-fashioned and outdated as the hybrid lifestyles and open-minded religious attitudes of the White Mughals [the British who embraced Indian culture] did among the now solidly Evangelical British. The stage was being set for a clash of rival fundamentalisms.
Garcia da Orta is explicit that diamonds were not regarded as the pre-eminent gemstone by the Mughals.
In 1628, at the height of his power, Shah Jahan brought the Mughal love affair with precious stones to its climax when he commissioned the most spectacular jewelled object ever made: the Peacock Throne.
