‘They gave us Red Fort, biryani’: Today’s Twitter trend is a lesson in Mughal history

Scroll Staff

· Nov 20, 2019 · 05:05 pm

A new book chronicles the life of Dara Shukoh, the heir apparent to Shah Jahan whom Aurangzeb killed

Avik Chanda

· Nov 19, 2019 · 07:30 am

Mughals intended to destroy Tripura’s cultural wonders by bombing them, claims Biplab Kumar Deb

Scroll Staff

· Nov 18, 2019 · 10:59 pm

Who really wrote the lines ‘If there is Paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this’?

Rana Safvi

· Nov 01, 2019 · 07:30 am

Delhi: Hindu Sena blackens signboard on Babur Road, wants it to be renamed after a ‘great Indian’

Scroll Staff

· Sep 14, 2019 · 08:17 pm

The Weekend Fix: Can the Congress survive without the Gandhis and ten other Sunday reads

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jul 21, 2019 · 09:39 am

Women lead a rebellion of peasants against the Mughal Empire in this historical novel

Amita Kanekar

· Jul 11, 2019 · 07:30 am

A writer’s search for Mumtaz Mahal across India turns into a quest for his personal history

Anodya Mishra

· Jul 07, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Begum Samru: The 18th century dancer who grew to rule a principality and rescue the Mughal emperor

Archana Garodia Gupta

· Apr 30, 2019 · 08:30 am

An imaginative Mughal-inspired fantasy novel gives us a layered world and a terrifying antagonist

Ashwitha Jayakumar

· Mar 23, 2019 · 07:30 am

Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 03:55 pm

Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal

Scroll Staff

· Dec 31, 2018 · 03:54 pm

How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend

Haroon Khalid

· Dec 15, 2018 · 10:30 am

The Mughals were an integral part of India – so why are they being labelled foreigners?

Parvati Sharma

· Nov 25, 2018 · 07:00 am

An imaginative biography of Jahangir shows how the distant past can be made intimately recognisable

Supriya Nair

· Nov 10, 2018 · 07:00 am

Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king

Bahadur Shah Zafar Maaz Bin Bilal

· Nov 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

How Jahangir fought his alcohol addiction and dealt with a threat posed by Akbar’s historian

Parvati Sharma

· Nov 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

A brave and innovative attempt to chronicle the life of Empress Nur Jahan is marred by conjecture

Ruchika Sharma

· Oct 13, 2018 · 07:00 am

How Mihr, the future Empress Noor Jahan and prince Salim, later Emperor Jehangir, fell in love

Ruby Lal

· Sep 03, 2018 · 08:30 am

Lessons from Ghalib: A courtesan’s quest to forge an identity in the twilight of the Mughal empire

Sikeena Karmali

· Jul 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm