In recent years, India has begun to view the Mughals and other Muslim dynasties before them, not as natives but invaders and colonizers. Hindutva’s rise sees even Islam as a foreign religion and the ...
From the sprawling, storied Mughal Empire there is a single surviving work of prose written by a woman: the memoir of the brave and brilliant Princess Gulbadan. A participant in the innermost circles ...
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 ...
What if the very palaces we marvel at today were built on the ruins of forgotten temples and fractured identities? And what if the same emperors who unified a subcontinent also planted the seeds of ...
"The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on ...
The Mughal Empire was an extensive and influential empire that had tremendous effects on the social, cultural, and political landscape of Indian Sub Continent over a period exceeding 300 years.