Ira Mukhoty

Gebundenes Buch

Daughters of the Sun

Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

Beschreibung

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 ...

Autor

IRA MUKHOTY is the author of Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History. She was educated in Delhi and Cambridge, where she studied Natural Sciences. After a peripatetic youth, she returned to Delhi to raise her two daughters. Living in one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, she developed an interest in the evolution of mythology and history and its relevance to the status of women in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9789386021120
• ISBN-10: 9386021129
• Artikelnr.: 53344482