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A name-game has started with the onset of New Year. This time, there s a concerted and consolidated effort to rename Aurangabad in Maharashtra as Sambhaji Nagar. In fact, hardcore Shiv Sainiks have been using the name Sambhaji Nagar in lieu of Aurangabad for nearly two decades because their party founder Bal Thackeray had renamed it Sambhaji Nagar (after the name of Shivaji s son) a quarter of a century ago. Now the question is: Was Aurangzeb so bad and vicious as to be condemned as the Worst Mughal , to quote Indian (precisely, Hindu) historians Sacchidanand Sinha and Ishwari Prasad?