Mughals

Historians have given prominence to Mughals, ignored glorious empires of Pandyas, Mauryas, Guptas: Amit Shah

The home minister said reference books should be written on these empires and if they are written, "the history which we believe wrong will gradually fade away and the truth will emerge"

Owaisi cries foul as Mathura court says plea to remove Shahi Idgah maintainable

A Mathura court on Thursday allowed the lawsuit demanding the removal of the Mughal-era Shahi Idgah mosque near the birthplace of Lord Krishna

Ram Navami to Hanuman Jayanti: Here’s why Hindu festivals face wave of attacks

After the advent of Narendra Modi in 2014, with a resurgence of Hindu nationalism, the attacks on Hindu festivals have become a lot more orchestrated and at different levels

Kashmir's Wantrag, a Pashtun village, is like a little slice of Afghanistan

While many of these families say they took shelter in this village well before Partition, roots of Afghans in the region date back even before the 16th Century

The Empire shows yet again why Hindi cinema can't get Mughals right

Given the track record of Hindi cinema, it comes as no surprise that Kunal Kapoor is cast as Babur, a pale, slant-eyed, wispy-bearded, Chagatai-Turkic speaking foreign invader.

Food Files: How fruit preservation in India married Mughal influence with local produce, customs to create new traditions

Far from being a homogeneous inherited lexicon, the methods with which fruit in India is preserved today is a textured reflection of centuries of invasions, colonisation and trade and maritime routes that have married the lay of the land and pre-existing dietary predilections with absorbed techniques.

On World Water Day 2021, taking a walk through Delhi and understanding its shifts of history through water

The history of Delhi can be told as a story of water.

White Mughals, Whitewashing, Whitesplaining: The neo-colonial manipulation of our history by its self-appointed gatekeepers

As long as we allow people with colonial mentalities to act as the self-appointed gatekeepers of our own history, culture, and knowledge systems, placing them upon a pedestal because of their accents or social circles, the process of decolonisation is incomplete.

National Theatre's Dara examines life of the Mughal prince, showcases his socio-political relevance in contemporary discourse

In an uncomfortable dichotomy with some bearing on real-life perceptions of Muslims, Dara Shukoh is remembered as a translator of the Upanishads, and religiously syncretic to the core, whereas an archetypal Aurangzeb destroyed temples and imposed Jizya on non-Muslims even as he ruled by Sharia law.

Read an excerpt from Debasish Das' book on the Red Fort, a narrative that looks beyond the monument's architecture

In Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals writer Debasish Das presents a multi-faceted cultural history of the Mughals. The following excerpt is taken from the chapter 'The Fort as a Spatial Representation of Mughal Heirarchy' and discusses how different apartments of the Fort were synchronised to suit the Emperor's daily routine.