On the first of Rabi‘u’l-awwal, Babur, contemplating the delicate dance of diplomacy, resolved to dispatch an envoy to regions once under the sway of the Turk, hoping to sow the seeds of peace. Mulla ...

Starting with Babur, its full blooming had to wait until Akbar’s defining reign. In a biography of Babur published in 2018, it would be hard to escape discussion of the Babri Masjid. Dales does take ...

At the crack of dawn on Wednesday, January 29, 1528, a man known as Medini Rai, along with thousands of troops he commanded, died defending the fort of Chanderi, in present-day Madhya Pradesh, against ...

The diary of the first Mughal emperor Babur portrays the many facets that made up his life On a bright winter morning lines of plane trees and immaculately tended rose bushes fall away down terraces ...