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 ...

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) ...

While Mughal forces and Maharana Pratap continued to engage against each other in one part of the Subcontinent for over fifteen years after Haldighati, Man Singh along with his father, Raja Bhagwant ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was “Zeeks” Sinha at Doon School who taught me there are two Indian monarchs we can legitimately consider “Great”, Ashoka in the 3rd century BC and, 18 centuries later, Akbar. I took his word for ...