One of the greatest empires in Indian history, the Mughal Empire emerged in the 16th century. With its authority as a major ...
Historians say Mughal history’s 500-year impact endures in India, it can’t be deleted; Prof. Naman Ahuja, V. Sriram and ...
History often arrives draped in marble, poetry, and romance, while concealing its scars beneath silk. Monuments may dazzle ...
"Imagine a land where the sun once set on a gilded empire and rose on the flag of a foreign crown. This is the story of India’s transformation—from the grandeur of the Mughal Peacock Throne to the ...
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 ...
Last year, I reviewed the first volume of The History of Akbar, a 16th century chronicle of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar, authored by the Emperor’s vizier, Abu’l Fazl.
The Mughal Empire is one of the greatest empires in Indian History. They ruled for more than three centuries from 1526 to 1857, covering extensive areas of India. Throughout their reign, there have ...
Guru Nanak seems like an unlikely starting point for a book on trade and commerce in India during the Mughal period. The founder of Sikhism is among the many figures of history that author Jagjeet ...
Ahmad Lahauri is believed to have been the main architect of the Taj Mahal. Wikimedia Commons Occasionally, I have devoted this column to a Smithsonian exhibition that has had a special personal ...