One of the greatest empires in Indian history, the Mughal Empire emerged in the 16th century. With its authority as a major ...

Historians say Mughal history’s 500-year impact endures in India, it can’t be deleted; Prof. Naman Ahuja, V. Sriram and ...

One group of historians offers a sanitised version of the Mughal Empire. Another gravitates towards vile condemnation. The ...

History often arrives draped in marble, poetry, and romance, while concealing its scars beneath silk. Monuments may dazzle ...

The Mughal Empire that ruled India for hundreds of years continues to shape the face of Delhi. Here in the sprawling capital, travellers can trace its legacy in restored monuments, archaeological ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

Guru Nanak seems like an unlikely starting point for a book on trade and commerce in India during the Mughal period. The founder of Sikhism is among the many figures of history that author Jagjeet ...