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 ...

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.

When history recalls the wealthiest empires of the world, the Mughal Empire often features prominently for its opulent courts, monumental architecture, and dominance in the Indian subcontinent. At its ...

Aurangzeb, carried on a palanquin in this 1775 painting, was the Mughal emperor whose reign remains among the most debated and controversial in Indian history While Europe was inventing newspapers, ...

Few Mughal rulers have been subjected to as many competing historical portraits as Aurangzeb. For more than a century, historians have quarrelled over his place in Indian history, investing his reign ...

Acknowledgements -- A note on spelling and transliteration -- List of figures. Introduction. Part 1 Approaching the sources : Texts in context: relating primary to secondary sources -- The trouble ...

In contemporary South Asia, where communal tensions are often projected backwards onto history, there is an urgent need to recover the pluralistic ideals that once animated the region's medieval past.

Beyond kings and dynasties, historian Harbans Mukhia explains how people, ideas and imagination fundamentally reshape our ...