Emperors of the peacock throne : the saga of the great Mughals
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Emperors of the peacock throne : the saga of the great Mughals
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 2000
Rev. ed
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The saga of the great Mughals
Peacock throne
The last spring : the lives and times of the great Mughals
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Originally published as "The last spring : the lives and times of the great Mughals" by Viking in New Delhi, 1997
Bibliography: p. [540]-546
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In December 1525, Zahir-ud-din Babur crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army. 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 story-teller, 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.
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