When Dara Shukoh arrived in Delhi a prisoner, late in the summer of 1659, Aurangzeb ordered him and Dara’s younger son, the fourteen-year-old Sipihr Shukoh, to be dressed in rags and paraded through the streets. The two defeated men wound through Delhi on an uncovered, mangy elephant, roasting under the scorching September sun, a sorry sight for all to behold.
