Chapter 1 The Mughal Advent 3 -- Chapter 2 The Struggle for Survival 39 -- Chapter 3 The Afghan Interlude 71 -- Chapter 4 The Mughal Restoration 101 -- Chapter 5 The Empire Takes Hold 137 -- Chapter 6 ...
The Mughal story, as Lally tells it, is less about crowns and conquest than about the quieter authority of documents and the ...
For nearly three centuries, the Mughal Empire defined power, art, and prosperity in India. At its height, it controlled a ...
Chandni Chowk was once the kind of neighborhood that people spoke about with awe. Built in the 17th century by Emperor Shah Jahan, it reflected the wealth of the once mighty Mughal empire, quickly ...
A new book on Indian business under the Mughal empire provides a timely reminder that the fate of nations is decided as much by accounts books as war and conquest ...
The religious landscape. Converts, apostates, and polytheists. Confessions of an Armenian convert : the I'tirafnama of Abkar ('Ali Akbar) Armani / Rudi Matthee -- Conversion, apostasy, and relations ...
Despite being dead for more than 300 years, this Indian ruler is still making waves in the nation’s politics. Aurangzeb Alamgir has become so central to India’s fraught political moment, his memory is ...
Jahanara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, was far more than a Mughal princess — she was a visionary architect, poet, and diplomat who designed Old Delhi’s iconic Chandni Chowk. A ...