mughals
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An imaginative Mughal-inspired fantasy novel gives us a layered world and a terrifying antagonist
Ashwitha Jayakumar
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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
Scroll Staff
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Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal
Scroll Staff
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How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend
Haroon Khalid
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The Mughals were an integral part of India – so why are they being labelled foreigners?
Parvati Sharma
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An imaginative biography of Jahangir shows how the distant past can be made intimately recognisable
Supriya Nair
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Not just the last Mughal: Three ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the poet king
Bahadur Shah Zafar Maaz Bin Bilal
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How Jahangir fought his alcohol addiction and dealt with a threat posed by Akbar’s historian
Parvati Sharma
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A brave and innovative attempt to chronicle the life of Empress Nur Jahan is marred by conjecture
Ruchika Sharma
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How Mihr, the future Empress Noor Jahan and prince Salim, later Emperor Jehangir, fell in love
Ruby Lal
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Lessons from Ghalib: A courtesan’s quest to forge an identity in the twilight of the Mughal empire
Sikeena Karmali
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Born of 1857 war, the British legacy of divide and rule still holds sway in India, Pakistan today
Haroon Khalid
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Renaming Mughal Sarai: Not only Aurangzeb – all Muslim rulers are suspect in Hindutva India
Shoaib Daniyal
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How the women of the Mughal Empire ruled without being monarchs
Supriya Nair
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Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh’s fight for the throne was entwined with the rivalry of their two sisters
Ira Mukhoty
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Video: How the Mughal emperors and other Indian royals celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi
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‘Mughlai Wrap’: A hip-hop music video from NID Ahmedabad asks India to stop hating Mughals
Satvika Kundu
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Video: The delicate Christmas-themed Mughal miniatures from the courts of Akbar and Jehangir
Scroll Staff
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How Mughal history inspired an American professor to weave a fantasy world that rivals Tolkien’s
Blake Smith
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Aurangzeb was a bigot not just by our standards but also by those of his predecessors and peers
Girish Shahane