Audrey Truschke's book "India" offers a sweeping 5,000-year history of the region, covering its political, religious, and ...

Maratha dominions and other Indian states had developed fairly detailed caste enumerations, used to regulate hierarchies and ...

The end of American dominance may bring global challenges. History shows the fall of empires leads to instability. The US-led ...

Aurangzeb Alamgir, the sixth ruler of the Mughal Empire, is the most hated king in Indian history. He was the last great imperial power in India before British colonialism. He is known for ...

Books. Excerpt: 'Chandni Chowk The Mughal City Of Old Delhi' By Swapna Liddle The book talks about the story of how the city came to be established, its grandeur as the capital of an empire at its ...

The overarching historical significance of the British empire and the ramifications of its dissolution in the Indian subcontinent ... Lubaaba Al-Azami’s book provides further insight into how Mughal ...

Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar on Sunday said all books glorifying Mughal emperor Akbar and referring to him as great "will be burnt". The minister's statement came during his visit to ...

The book by Tara Desjardins, curator of South Asia at Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art, presents as a catalogue the niche oeuvre of glass associated with the Mughal Empire (1526-1858) — easily ...

Gulbadan Begum, author of the Humayun-nama, was the Mughal empire’s only woman historian. A new book looks at her intriguing life. For Ruby Lal, the tale begins when she stumbles upon a rare ...

The Mughal harem was fundamental to Akbar’s plan to broadcast his image as a strong and invincible sovereign: the head of the empire, whose revered women couldn’t be seen.

At the age of 53, Gulbadan Begum - daughter of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire - and 11 women from the royal household - left the confines of a harem in Fatehpur Sikri to set off on a journey ...