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03907aam a2200457 i 4500 001 636B4FF8E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210721010052 008 180615s2018 ii af b 000 0ceng d 010 $a 2017353755 020 $a 9386021129 020 $a 9789386021120 035 $a (OCoLC)1040634538 040 $a DKAGE $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d DKAGE $d OCLCF $d DLC $d UKMGB $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d CLU $d WAU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lcode $a lcode 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a DS461.9.A1 $b M85 2018 082 04 $a 954.0250922 $2 23 100 1 $a Mukhoty, Ira, $e author. 245 10 $a Daughters of the Sun : $b empresses, queens and begums of the Mughal Empire / $c Ira Mukhoty. 264 1 $a New Delhi : $b Aleph, $c 2018. 300 $a xxvii, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (colour) ; $c 23 cm 520 $a In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled 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 patronised the arts. In daughters of the sun, we meet remarkable characters like Khanzada begum who, at sixty-five, rode on horseback through 750 kilometres of icy passes and unforgiving terrain to parley on behalf of her nephew, Humayun, Gulbadan begum, who gave us the only document written by a woman of the Mughal royal court, a rare glimpse into the harem, as well as a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of three emperors Babur, Humayun and Akbar her father, brother and nephew, Akbar's milk mothers or foster-mothers, Jiji Anaga and Maham Anaga, who shielded and guided the thirteen-year-old emperor until he came of age, Noor Jahan, 'light of the world', a widow and mother who would become Jahangir's last and favourite wife, acquiring an imperial legacy of her own and the fabulously wealthy begum sahib (princess of princesses) Jahanara, shah Jahan's favourite child, 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 illuminating and gripping history of a little known aspect of the most magnificent dynasty the world has ever known. 500 $a Biographies. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-276). 505 0 $a Peripatetic queens from Persia to Hindustan 1494-1569 -- Disappeared wives and imperial splendour 1556-1631 -- Ambitious siblings and a Shahzaadi's dream 1631-1721. 650 0 $a Queens $z Mogul Empire $v Biography. 650 7 $a Kings and rulers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00987694 650 7 $a Queens. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01085637 651 0 $a India $x Kings and rulers $v Biography. 651 0 $a Mogul Empire $x History. 651 0 $a India $x History. 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 651 7 $a India $z Mogul Empire. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01240293 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317020741.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=636B4FF8E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search