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The aim of this liberal heart was to cherish and protect all the people. He adopted the admirable policy of universal harmony ( sulh-i-kul) in relation to all the various sects, such as Christians, Jews, Muslims, Dadu's followers, sky-worshippers ( falakia), malakia, materialists ( ansaria), atheists ( daharia), Brahmans and Jain priests.
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May it please your Majesty! that architect of the fabric of (Mughal) empire, Akbar Padishah, reigned with full power for 52 years. It has recently come to my ears that, on the ground of the war with me having exhausted your wealth and emptied the imperial treasury, Your Majesty has ordered that money under the name of Jaziya should be collected from the Hindus and the Imperial needs supplied with it. So, with a view to rendering good service and earning the Imperial favour, I submit the following words in a spirit of devotion to the public welfare. My excellent services and devotion to the welfare of the (Mughal) State are fully known to the Princes, Khans, Amirs, Rajas and the Rais of India, to the rulers of Persia, Central Asia, Turkey and Syria, to the inhabitants of the seven climes of the globe, and to wayfarers on land and sea and very likely their light has flashed on your Majesty's capacious mind. "This firm and constant well-wisher Shivaji, after rendering thanks for the grace of God and the favours of the Emperor - which are clearer than the Sun, - begs to inform Your Majesty that, although this well-wisher was led by his adverse Fate to come away from your August Presence (at Agra) without taking leave, yet he is ever ready to perform, to the fullest extent possible and proper, everything that duty as a servant and gratitude demand of him. Shivaji's Remonstrance Against the Imposition of the Jaziya
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No sooner the order for levying Jaziya on the Hindus was promulgated, Shivaji wrote a spirited letter to Aurangzeb protesting against the imposition of this hated tax. There was mass protest against the imposition of Jaziya in Delhi in 1679, and opposition to the tax in some form or other continued till almost the end of Aurangzeb's reign (1707 A.D.).
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For the middle and the upper classes, it was not so much the economic burden but the humiliation and harassment resulting from it which offended them. This tax was abolished by Emperor Akbar in 1564 as he did nto believe in the Quranic distinction between the believers (Muslims) and non-believers among his subjects. As per his policy of confirming to the injunctions of the Shariat, Aurangzeb imposed Jaziya on the Hindus throughout the empire from the 2nd April 1679.