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Akbar: The Great Mughal 2 Apr, 2020

by Ira Mukhoty

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Abu’l Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, the third Mughal emperor, is
widely regarded as one of the greatest rulers in India’s history. During
his reign, the Mughal Empire was one of the wealthiest in the world, and
covered much of the Indian subcontinent. Although there are dozens of books
on the empire, there are surprisingly few full-length accounts of its most
remarkable emperor, with the last major study having been published over
two decades ago. In Akbar: The Great Mughal, this outstanding sovereign finally
gets his due, and the reader gets the full measure of his extraordinary life.
Akbar was born on 15 October 1542 and after a harrowing childhood and
a tumultuous struggle for succession following the death of his father,
Humayun, became emperor at the age of thirteen. He then ruled for nearly
fifty years, and over the course of his reign established an empire that would be
hailed as singular, both in its own time and for posterity.
In this book, acclaimed writer Ira Mukhoty covers Akbar’s life and times in lavish,
illuminating detail. The product of years of reading, research, and study, the biography
looks in great detail at every aspect of this exceptional ruler—his ambitions, mistakes,
bravery, military genius, empathy for his subjects, and path-breaking efforts to
reform the governance of his empire. It delves deep into his open-mindedness, his
reverence towards all religions, his efforts towards the emancipation of women, his
abolishing of slavery and the religious tax—jiziya—and other acts that showed his
statesmanship and humanity. The biography uses recent ground-breaking work by
art historians to examine Akbar’s unending curiosity about the world around him,
and the role the ateliers played in the succession struggle between him and his heir,
Prince Salim (who became Emperor Jahangir).
Beautifully written, hugely well-informed, and thoroughly grounded in scholarship,
this monumental biography captures the grandeur, vitality, and genius of the Great
Mughal.

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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire 25 Apr, 2018

by Ira Mukhoty

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In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women would help establish a dynasty and empire that would rule India for the next 200 years and become a byword for opulence and grandeur. By the second half of the seventeenth century, the Mughal empire was one of the largest and richest in the world.
The Mughal women—unmarried daughters, eccentric sisters, fiery milk mothers and powerful wives—often worked behind the scenes and from within the zenana, but there were some notable exceptions among them who rode into battle with their men, built stunning monuments, engaged in diplomacy, traded with foreigners and minted coins in their own names. Others wrote biographies and patronised the arts.
In Daughters of the Sun, we meet remarkable characters like Khanzada Begum who, at sixty-five, rode on horseback through 750 kilometres of icy passes and unforgiving terrain to parley on behalf of her nephew, Humayun; Gulbadan Begum, who gave us the only document written by a woman of the Mughal royal court, a rare glimpse into the harem, as well as a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of three emperors—Babur, Humayun and Akbar—her father, brother and nephew; Akbar’s milk mothers or foster-mothers, Jiji Anaga and Maham Anaga, who shielded and guided the thirteen-year-old emperor until he came of age; Noor Jahan, ‘Light of the World’, a widow and mother who would become Jahangir’s last and favourite wife, acquiring an imperial legacy of her own; and the fabulously wealthy Begum Sahib (Princess of Princesses) Jahanara,
Shah Jahan’s favourite child, owner of the most lucrative port in medieval India and patron of one of its finest cities, Shahjahanabad. The very first attempt to chronicle the women who played a vital role in building the Mughal empire, Daughters of the Sun is an illuminating and gripping history of a little known aspect of the most magnificent dynasty the world has ever known.

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Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History 3 Jan, 2017

by Ira Mukhoty

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The idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery. Women’s heroism has tended to be of a very different nature, less easily categorized. All the women portrayed—Draupadi, Radha, Ambapali, Raziya Sultan, Meerabai, Jahanara, Laxmibai and Hazrat Mahal—share an unassailable belief in a cause, for which they are willing to fight to the death if need be. In every case this belief leads them to confrontation with a horrified patriarchy.

In the book we meet lotus-eyed, dark-skinned Draupadi, dharma queen, whose story emerges almost three millennia ago; the goddess Radha who sacrificed societal respectability for a love that transgressed convention; Ambapali, a courtesan, who stepped out of the luxurious trappings of Vaishali to follow the Buddha and wrote a single, haunting poem on the evanescence of beauty and youth. Raziya, the battle-scarred warrior, who proudly claimed the title of Sultan, refusing its fragile feminine counterpart, Sultana; the courageous Meerabai who repudiated her patriarchal destiny as cloistered daughter-in-law of a Rajput clan; the gentle Mughal princess Jahanara: who claims the blessings of both Allah and the Prophet Muhammad and wishes ‘never to be forgotten’; Laxmibai, widow, patriot and martyr, who rides into legend and immortality fighting for her adopted son’s birthright; and Hazrat Mahal, courtesan, begum, and rebel queen, resolute till the very end in defying British attempts to seize her ex-husband’s kingdom.

In these engrossing portraits, mythological characters from thousands of years ago walk companionably besides historical figures from more recent times. They rise to reclaim their rightful place in history. Daughters, wives, courtesans, mothers, queens, goddesses, warriors—heroines.

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