Emperors of the Peacock Throne: The Saga of the Great MughalsA Stirring Account Of One Of The World S Greatest Empires In December 1525, Zahir-Ud-Din Babur, Descended From Chengiz Khan And Timur Lenk, Crossed The Indus River Into The Punjab With A Modest Army And Some Cannon. At Panipat, Five Months Later, He Fought The Most Important Battle Of His Life And Routed The Mammoth Army Of Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, The Afghan Ruler Of Hindustan. Mughal Rule In India Had Begun. It Was To Continue For Over Three Centuries, Shaping India For All Time. In This Definitive Biography Of The Great Mughals, Abraham Eraly Reclaims The Right To Set Down History As A Chronicle Of Flesh-And-Blood People. Bringing To His Task The Objectivity Of A Scholar And The High Imagination Of A Master Storyteller, He Recreates The Lives Of Babur, The Intrepid Pioneer; The Dreamer Humayun; Akbar, The Greatest And Most Enigmatic Of The Mughals; The Aesthetes Jehangir And Shah Jahan; And The Dour And Determined Aurangzeb. |
Contents
Like a King on a Chessboard | 5 |
If Fame Be Mine | 15 |
Black Fell the | 28 |
The Dreamer Cometh | 41 |
The Feast Is Over | 49 |
What Is to Be Done? | 59 |
Man of Destiny | 73 |
Peaceable Kingdom | 82 |
Pyrrhic Victories | 316 |
Ya Takht Ya Tabut | 331 |
For the Sake of the True Faith | 344 |
Daras Last Stand | 360 |
Over the Top | 373 |
Gods Elected Custodian | 375 |
Fear the Sighs of the Oppressed | 384 |
Born to Trouble Others | 397 |
Fiery | 91 |
Humayun in Exile | 103 |
The Reluctant Boy King | 114 |
The Empire Takes Hold | 137 |
Person and Persona | 163 |
Illiterate Savant | 173 |
My Mind Is Not at Ease | 183 |
The Middle Empire | 231 |
His Fathers Son | 233 |
Scientist Emperor | 244 |
Sons and Rebels | 255 |
Another Son Another Rebel | 263 |
Light of the World | 271 |
An English Aristocrat in the Mughal Court | 279 |
The Coup | 288 |
The Paradise on Earth | 297 |
The Man Behind the Mask | 299 |
The More One Drinks | 413 |
Now That the Shadows Fall | 424 |
The Maratha Nemesis | 431 |
Maratha Beginnings | 433 |
Enter Shivaji | 440 |
Lord of the Umbrella | 454 |
Kirti Rupen | 466 |
Maratha Collapse | 477 |
Rafizikush | 485 |
Maratha Eruption | 496 |
Of the Future There Is No Hope | 504 |
Epilogue | 515 |
Incidental Data | 523 |
Notes | 539 |
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