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ISBN: 0140138366
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Subtitle: FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: VOL 2
Author: PERCIVAL SPEAR
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| Weight | 0.32 kg |
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| ISBN | 0140138366 |
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| Publication Date | 1998 |
| Pages | 298 |
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The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India s next ruler. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers-Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangzeb-who with their older sister Jahanara Begum clashed during a war of succession. Emerging victorious, Aurangzeb executed his brothers, jailed his father, and became the sixth and last great Mughal. After Aurangzeb s reign, the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate. Endless battles with rival rulers depleted the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the edges of the subcontinent. Historians have long wondered whether the Mughal Empire would have crumbled when it did, allowing European traders to seize control of India, if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne. To many in South Asia, Aurangzeb is the scholastic bigot who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet and mystic. Gandhi s nuanced biography gives us a more complex and revealing portrait of this Mughal prince than we have ever had.
ISBN: 9789696402770
ISBN: 9789696402770
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: DARA SHUKOH IN MUGHAL INDIA
Author: SUPRIYA GANDHI
ISBN: A1457 – Hardback
Publisher: DAR AL-ANDALUS
ISBN: A1457
Publisher: DAR AL-ANDALUS
Subtitle:
Author: MUHAMMAD ASAD
A survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to an influential reading of Eliot, and including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.
ISBN: 0826479332
Publisher: CONTINUUM INTERNATIONAL
Subtitle:
Author: C. K. STEAD
ISBN: 0691116695
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: WHY STSTES RISE AND FALL
Author: PETER TURCHIN
ISBN: 0860911594
Publisher: VERSO
Subtitle: THE BILDUNGSROMAN IN EUROPEAN CULTURE
Author: FRANCO MORETTI
ISBN: 9694023319
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Author: SVEN HEDIN
ISBN: 0449902889 – Paperback
Publisher: BALLANTINE BOOKS
ISBN: 8170010187
Publisher: CHANAKYA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle:
Author: GAIL MINAULT
ISBN: 1851702830 – Hardback
Publisher: BRACKEN BOOKS
ISBN: 1851702830
Publisher: BRACKEN BOOKS
Subtitle:
Author: S.PETER DANCE
