Emperor Akbar, the greatest of the Mughal emperors, who ruled India from 1556 till 1605, left a legacy of tolerance, virtuousness, harmony, and prosperity. Ira Mukhoty’s definitive and exhaustive ...
Biographies are very much the incumbent emperor of history-writing in this age, with the Mughal dynasty receiving significant attention in this regard from Indian writers. Books on the lives of Dara ...
Ira Mukhoty; and (above) Akbar in conversation with Jesuit missionaries, in a 16th century Mughal School miniature painting.(Photo: Getty Images) Do we need yet another book on a great Mughal? When I ...
On 10 October 1941, one Adi K Munshi of Bombay (now Mumbai) wrote a letter to the editor of The Times of India. That was the time of the Second World War, and there was unrest in India. There was a ...
In her biography of the third Mughal Emperor, Akbar, Ira Mukhoty describes the night of October 15, 1542, when at the fort of Umerkot, Humayun’s wife Hamida Banu delivered a baby boy. The good news, ...
Charismatic, curious, catholic, compassionate — Emperor Akbar (1542-1605) has long exercised the imagination of Indians of all hues. For the lay person, he is the lumbering giant with the booming ...