That enmity was not the norm even at the height of Aurangzeb’s rule is also perhaps indicated by the tone and content of Khulasat ut-Tawarikh, written in Persian in 1695, twelve years before the emperor’s death, by Sujan Rai Bhandari, a Hindu from the Bari doab town of Batala, which in British times would belong to the Lahore division. In this work, which among other subjects deals with the rulers, rivers, landscapes and heroes of Punjab, Bhandari refers to the saints honoured by the region’s Muslims, the Gurus of the Sikhs and the shrines of the Hindus, and offers no depiction of hostility
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