Editing Aurangzeb (section)

===Bureaucracy===
Aurangzeb's imperial bureaucracy employed significantly more Hindus than that of his predecessors.

Between 1679 and 1707, the number of Hindu officials in the Mughal administration rose by half to 31.6% due to an increased recruitment of [[Maratha]]s for the purpose of Deccan campaign.<ref name="Truschke50">{{cite book |last=Truschke |first=Audrey |year=2017 |title=Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGwlDgAAQBAJ&dq=But+between+1679+and+1707+Aurangzeb+increased+Hindu+participation&pg=PT21 |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=56 |isbn=978-1-5036-0259-5|quote=But between 1679 and 1707 Aurangzeb increased Hindu participation at the elite levels of the Mughal state by nearly 50 percent. Hindus rose to 31.6 percent of the Mughal nobility. This dramatic rise featured a substantial influx of Marathas as a strategic aspect of expanding Mughal sovereignty across the Deccan.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Malik|first=Jamal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FduG_t2sxwMC&q=Aurangzeb+levied+taxes+on+Hindu+merchants&pg=PA190|title=Islam in South Asia: A Short History|date= 2008|publisher=Brill|page=190|isbn=978-90-04-16859-6}}</ref> In the second half of his rule, the Marathas outnumbered [[Rajput]]s in his administration.<ref>{{cite book |last=Truschke |first=Audrey |year=2017 |title=Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUUkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT50 |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=58 |isbn=978-1-5036-0259-5|quote=Quite possibly rising numbers of Marathas—to the extent that they outnumbered Rajputs among Mughal nobles—unsettled other groups within the nobility and prompted an attempted (if failed) scaling-back in Hindu officers across the board.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=In the second half of his rule, North India seems to have become less important than the South; hence even though the Hindu nobles increased in the administration, the Rajputs become less important, now outnumbered by the Marathas. |title=Politics and Religion in Eighteenth-Century India |author=Sachi Patel |year=2021 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=75 |isbn=978-1-000-45142-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCM_EAAAQBAJ&dq=Marathas+outnumbered+rajputs+in+mughal+nobility&pg=PT36}}</ref> Nevertheless, he tried to decrease the number of non-Muslim nobles in his court and encouraged high ranking Hindu officials to convert to Islam.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Laine|first=James W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-x3fBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA152|title=Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History |year=2015|publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-959996 |page=153 |language=en|quote=Aurangzeb certainly continued to employ Hindu nobles, but did seek to reduce the number of non-Muslim nobles allied to his court, and encouraged high-ranking Hindus to convert to Islam.}}</ref>