Babur
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The iPhone, Babur & are sons sold in shops?
A Dalit with an iPhone 16 has purchasing power, not the end of caste. And a Turkic sword at the birth of Indo-Islam is not a claim over South Asian…
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History podcast: Episode 16- The rise of the Mughals
In BrownCast episode 16, Omar Ali and Jay discuss the rise of the ‘Great’ Mughals from Babur onward; challengers such as Maharana Pratap, Shivaji and Lachit Borphukan, and the empire’s…
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The Mughals!
After a Clubhouse debate on the Mughals, the author rejects both the ‘great Indians’ and ‘genocidal colonisers’ extremes, arguing they were partly an alien Turco-Mongol presence yet drove changes that…
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Sangat and Society: the Sikh remaking of the North Indian Public Sphere
The author sets Guru Nanak’s founding of Kartarpur against Babur’s invasion of Punjab in 1519, arguing that the Sikh message of community and shared worship remade the North Indian public…
