Akbar’s navratnas were nine extraordinary minds who shaped one of India’s most intellectually vibrant courts. From poets and ...

In a famous anecdote, the Mughal Emperor Akbar holds court with representatives of the major religions, who each take turns to make the case for their faith being the correct one. With their arguments ...

On 10 October 1941, one Adi K Munshi of Bombay (now Mumbai) wrote a letter to the editor of The Times of India. That was the time of the Second World War, and there was unrest in India. There was a ...

Babur did not get enough time to establish state institutions. It was Akbar who laid the foundations of the administrative system and structured the Mughal state. Akbar extended the boundaries by ...

In her biography of the third Mughal Emperor, Akbar, Ira Mukhoty describes the night of October 15, 1542, when at the fort of Umerkot, Humayun’s wife Hamida Banu delivered a baby boy. The good news, ...

Ira Mukhoty; and (above) Akbar in conversation with Jesuit missionaries, in a 16th century Mughal School miniature painting.(Photo: Getty Images) Do we need yet another book on a great Mughal? When I ...

Historiography in an ideological state becomes a tool to justify it by distorting events and misinterpreting facts. Pakistan came into being on the basis of the 'two nation' theory and so the ...

Emperor Akbar, the greatest of the Mughal emperors, who ruled India from 1556 till 1605, left a legacy of tolerance, virtuousness, harmony, and prosperity. Ira Mukhoty’s definitive and exhaustive ...

Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar called Mughal emperor Akbar “a rapist, invader, and looter” during a state assembly session on Tuesday. His remarks came in response to a discussion on the ...

Making yet another controversial statement, BJP’s state president Madan Lal Saini on Thursday claimed that Mughal Emperor Akbar was not “Great” but a “molester”, who used to organise “Meena Bazaar” to ...