About Book:
- Author : Ira Mukhoty
- Publisher: Aleph Book company
- Pages: 323
- Size: 4.41 MB
- Language: English
- Extension: PDF
- Year: 2018
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Description:
In 1526 a Timurid warrior-scholar rides into Delhi to build an empire. With him ride his wives, his sisters, his daughters, his aunts and his distant female relatives. Unhindered by a relatively recent conversion to Islam, these women will help found a culture of such magnificence and beauty that it will become a by-word for opulence in the world. These Mughal women of Hindustan—unmarried daughters, eccentric sisters, fiery milk-mothers and beautiful wives, will contribute to the great syncretic culture of the Mughals by writing biographies, building monuments, engaging in diplomacy, and patronizing the arts. And even as the zenana changes from the earlier nomadic, tented spaces to the later more sequestered grandeur within the high stone walls of mighty qilas, the influence of the women remains visible and unquestioned. This book looks at the lives of these Mughal women, and the enigma of their disappearance, except as objects of curiosity, from our collective memory.
Contents:
Peripatetic Queens from Persia to
Hindustan
1494–1569
1494–1569
The Timurids, the Uzbeks and Khanzada’s Sacrifice
Hindustan and the Coming of the Begums and the Khanums
Khanzada Begum and the Mystic Feast
Rout at the Battle of Chausa and the Afghan Menace
Dildar Begum and a Marriage Proposal
Hamida Banu and the Persian Escapade
Bega Begum and Humayun’s Tomb
Disappeared Wives and Imperial Splendour
1556–1631
Maham Anaga and the River of Milk
Disappeared Wives and the Mystery of Jahangir’s Mother
Gulbadan and the Mughal Hajj
Salima Sultan Begum and the Prodigal Son
Maryam-uz-Zamani, the Rahimi and the Perfidious Portuguese
Noor Jahan, an English Ambassador and the Politics of Colour
Mumtaz Mahal and a Love Supreme
Ambitious Siblings and a
Shahzaadi’s Dream
1631–1721
1631–1721
Shahzaadi
That Timurid Girl
A New City for the Peacock Throne
Letters between a Brother and a Sister
Sibling Rivalries
Roshanara Begum and a Dangerous Brother
The Woman in the Tower and the Last Padshah Begum
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