"The Mughal Empire was one of the great powers of the early modern era, ruling almost all of South Asia, a conquest state, dominated by its military elite. Many historians have viewed the Mughal ...

The Mughal Empire was an extensive and influential empire that had tremendous effects on the social, cultural, and political ...

“As is true of autocracies everywhere”, wrote David Remnick last April, “this Administration demands a mystical view of an imagined past.” Although Remnick was referring to Trump’s America, something ...

An illustrative image depicting the painting of an unidentified courtesan from the early 19th century with Mirza Fakhru, the last crown prince of the Mughal Empire, against a painting of the Chhatta ...

Akbar’s son Jahangir (r 1605-23) was half Rajput, as his mother was a Rajput princess. Jahangir, in turn, married seven daughters of Rajput rulers, one of whom was the mother of his imperial successor ...