Akbar
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The Mughals Were Not an Indian Dynasty — They Were a Dynasty in India
X.T.M argues, drawing on Richard Eaton, that the Mughals were a dynasty in India rather than an Indian dynasty, anchored in Persianate high culture and Turko-Mongol kingship, and contrasts them…
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On the Great Mughals: Indian or not?
Looking at portraits of Akbar and Shah Jahan, the author argues the Mughals were neither simply Indian nor simply colonisers: their ancestry was mixed, Sunni orthodoxy grew after Akbar, and…
