INO Aurangzeb Alamgir
Aurangzeb was the sixth Mughal emperor, and the last of the so-called “Great Mughals.” He took advantage of his father Shah Jahan’s illness to depose him and seize power. Although Aurangzeb expanded the empire to its greatest extent, his reign was marred by worsening social relations largely because of his intolerant policies, and his death was followed by a steady decline of Mughal power, at the hands of the Marathas, the Sikhs and the newly arrived European powers. Eventually, much of the Mughal empire came under the control of the British, who to a large extent retained the administrative structure of the Mughals in effectively maintaining control over the Raj.
One of Aurangzeb’s first policies was to eliminate the use of the kalima on the coinage, as he felt the sacred words would be defiled on coins as they were handled by infidels. His coins therefore only list his name and titles, along with the dates and the mint names.