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 ...
Abul Fazl composed the monumental two-volume chronicle of Akbar’s reign, the Akbarnama, illuminated with brilliant miniatures painted by forty-nine artists, both Hindu and Muslim (Wikimedia Commons) ...
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 ...
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, ...
Viewed through a modern lens, Mughal emperor Akbar was a role model in many ways in India and Europe
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 ...
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