The Mughals were the longest-lasting of those. April 21st marks exactly 500 years since the Battle of Panipat, when Babur, a ...

From the sprawling, storied Mughal Empire there is a single surviving work of prose written by a woman: the memoir of the brave and brilliant Princess Gulbadan. A participant in the innermost circles ...

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The Persian connection with India runs deep. From offering refuge to communities that arrived on Indian shores to supplying horses, arms, architects, and ideas to the Mughal Empire, Persia, now Iran, ...

In March 1986 Sayyid Ali Khamenei, who would three years later become Iran’s supreme leader, gave a speech at a major conference in Tehran on the Indian poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. Iqbal lived in ...

DHAKA – Our country is blessed with beautiful mosques. Be it the Sultanate era mosques or the modern marvels, Bangladesh is dotted with these awe-inspiring places of worship that span many centuries.

History has often been miserly in giving women their due. For over two centuries, they played a significant role in defining the architectural skyline of the Mughal empire’s capital, yet their ...

A lot has been written about medieval Mughal rule in India in recent years. But these have been more about the iconic rulers than the ordinary masses. Hotly contested, some see the Mughal regime as ...

ISLAMABAD: Following the demolition of a World War I memorial in the capital, the remains of another Mughal-era building have also fallen victim to urban development. The remains of the 16th century ...

Mughals not only ruled India with authority but also left behind architectural marvels. Between the 16th and 17th centuries, Mughal emperors built magnificent forts, beautiful gardens, grand mosques, ...