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Reproducing, or summarizing the most valuable of the missionaries' letters written prior to 1610, this volume makes available the illegible and scattered primary sources on the reign of the Emperor Akbar.
This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.
The story of the four brilliant and dynamic begums of Bhopal - Qudsiya Begum, Sikander Begum, Shah Jahan Begum and Sultan Jahan Begum.
Account of a former ruling nawab from Bhopal, princely state in India.
"Between 1819 and 1926 four Muslim women rulers reigned over Bhopal, the second largest Muslim state of India, despite staunch opposition from powerful neighbours and male claimants. Even the British East India Company initially opposed female rule in Bhopal until the Begums "d Queen Victoria as their model and inspiration. Qudsia, the first Begum, was supported by her powerful French-Bourbon Prime Minister in her departure from the traditional. She was succeeded in 1844 by Sikandar, her only daughter, who discarded purdah like her mother and was a powerful and awesome ruler, leading her armies into battle, and indulging in the male-dominated pastimes of polo and tiger-hunting. Sikandar's on...