The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors - Hardcover

Eraly, Abraham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842127233 ISBN 13: 9781842127230

Verlag: Orion, 2003

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We are setting a press date of 8 May for this title, and have received an excellent first review in CONDE NAST TRAVELLER: "A fascinating account of the Mughal conquest of India that, to this layman at least, already feels like a classic." "It is exciting in addition to being well researched." TATLER "The story of Mughal India is intensely dramatic and colourful and Eraly's lively text does justice to its subject... exciting reading."PHILIP ZEIGLER, DAILY TELEGRAPH "Majestic study of rulers of India for three centuries and who transformed the country and laid the foundations on which the British built."SUNDAYHERALD Reviews are slow but coming, with a column already in THE INDEPENDENTand a feature review in the SUNDAY TIMES to come.

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In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle ot Panipat five months later he routed the mammoth army of the Afghan ruler of Hindustan. Mughal rule in India had begun. It was to continue for over three centuries, shaping India for all time. Babur won further victories but after his death the Mughals were thrown out of India. It required a new invasion in 1554, brilliantly consolidated by Babur's grandson Akbar, to restore their rule. The reign of Akbar, from 1556 to 1605, is one of the great ages of Indian history. An unorthodox Muslim himself, Akbar favoured religious toleration, and the architecture of his new capital at Fatehpur Sikri reflected both Islamic and Hindu traditions. Under the next conqueror, Jenhangir, and his son, Shah Jehan, who built the Taj Mahal, the Mughal Empire reached a pinnacle of prosperity and wealth. But the light of Mughal civilisation was beginning to fade, even though the last of the great emperors, the cunning but dour Aurangzeb, who ruled from 1656 to 1707, added most of southern India to the empire. Full of dramatic episodes and colourful detail, The Mughal Empire tells the story of one of the world's great empires.

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• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1842127233
• ISBN 13: 9781842127230
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544