Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of

Description: Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire Hardcover | ISBN 978-9386021120 In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives traveled with him. These women would help establish a dynasty and empire that would rule India for the next 200 years and become a byword for opulence and grandeur. By the second half of the seventeenth century, the Mughal empire was one of the largest and richest in the world. The Mughal women unmarried daughters, eccentric sisters, fiery milk mothers and powerful wives often worked behind the scenes and from within the Zenana, but there were some notable exceptions among them who rode into battle with their men, built stunning monuments, engaged in diplomacy, traded with foreigners and minted coins in their own names. Others wrote biographies and patronized the arts. In daughters of the sun, owner of the most lucrative port in medieval India and patron of one of its finest cities, (No Suggestions). The very first attempt to chronicle the women who played a vital role in building the Mughal empire, daughters of the sun is an illustrating and gripping history of a little known aspect of the most magnificent dynasty the world has ever known. Product informationReviewDaughters of the Sun offers fascinating account on wives, daughters and sisters of Mughal emperors'- Mid-day'Ira Mukhoty's Daughters of the Sun tries to overwrite the male-centric history of Babur and his successors'. -Scrolkin'Ira Mukhoty brings forth an illuminating and gripping history of a little known aspect of "the most magnificent dynasty" wattle were World Has Ever Known ".- IANS' Meticulously researched, this intense work is very well channelled through their extraordinary narration and captivating plot'. - A Hindu's view (blog)'A richly researched and a well written book, Daughters of the Sun is a beautiful read'.-The Bookish Tales About the AuthorIra Mukhoty is the author of heroines, powerful Indian women of myth and history. She was educated in Delhi and Cambridge, where she studied natural sciences. After a peripatetic youth, she returned to Delhi to raise her two daughters. Living in one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, she developed an interest in the evolution of mythology and history and its relevance to the status of women in India.

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