Satish Chandra: Satish Chandra (1922-2004) was another prominent Indian historian who wrote on the Mughal Empire and the reign of Aurangzeb. His most well-known work is "Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court, 1707-1740," published in 1959. Chandra was a Marxist historian, and his interpretation of Mughal history was influenced by his political ideology.