The emperor’s new clothes: How the Mughals fashioned a distinct identity

Simran Agarwal

· Mar 29, 2025 · 07:30 pm

Harsh Mander: Will the India of ‘messy diversity’ and shared togetherness be lost in time?

Harsh Mander

· Dec 14, 2024 · 06:30 am

Why Akbar was a staunch believer in sulh-e-kul or complete harmony among all faiths in his empire

Shazi Zaman

· Sep 18, 2024 · 08:30 am

A painting of Akbar in a drunken brawl is a history lesson in manliness and kingship

Kamayani Sharma

· Aug 10, 2024 · 11:30 am

Tripura suspends forest officer amid row over naming lions Akbar and Sita: Report

Scroll Staff

· Feb 26, 2024 · 03:46 pm

Cat calling: What should the lions and lionesses of a secular state be named?

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Feb 26, 2024 · 06:30 am

Calcutta High Court suggests changing name of lioness Sita in response to VHP petition

Scroll Staff

· Feb 22, 2024 · 04:27 pm

VHP moves Calcutta High Court against housing lions Sita and Akbar together in safari park

Scroll Staff

· Feb 17, 2024 · 05:14 pm

Feeling an affinity with Alexander the Great, Akbar commissioned a special manuscript on his life

Ursula Sims Wiliams

· Feb 21, 2023 · 09:30 pm

‘Akbar of Hindustan’: Parvati Sharma’s biography presents its subject with all his ambiguities

Supriya Nair

· Apr 30, 2022 · 08:30 am

In the midst of millenarian chaos, the charismatic presence of Akbar – the perfect ruler

Kavita Singh

· Aug 07, 2021 · 11:30 am

As Jahangir contemplates a portrait of his father, a reversal of our ideas about dreams and reality

Kavita Singh

· Jul 18, 2021 · 08:30 am

How Ira Mukhoty’s biography of Akbar often uses unorthodox methods to chronicle a grand life story

Akshaj Awasthi

· Jun 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

The making of Akbar’s complicated harem, where Rajput women played a critical role

Ira Mukhoty

· Apr 29, 2020 · 08:30 am

Viewed through a modern lens, Mughal emperor Akbar was a role model in many ways in India and Europe

Manimugdha S Sharma

· Oct 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Agra Fort: A visit in search of Mumtaz Mahal reveals what lay beneath the Mughals’ royal palace

Timeri N Murari

· Jun 20, 2019 · 07:30 am

Akbar was not ‘great’, used to misbehave with women, claims Rajasthan BJP chief

Scroll Staff

· Jun 07, 2019 · 09:32 am

Gujarat’s medieval cities were once the biggest in the world – as a viral video reminds us

Aparna Kapadia

· Mar 30, 2019 · 08:00 am

Glimpses of ‘Divan-i-Hijri’, a book of poems in the collection of Humayun’s wife Hamidah Banu

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Sep 29, 2018 · 09:30 pm

From Mughal times to today’s poll-bound Pakistan, the battle of legacies goes way back

Haroon Khalid

· Jul 20, 2018 · 12:30 pm