In recent months, there has been a renewed interest in India’s past, especially the Mughal era. People are revisiting history ...

From the sprawling, storied Mughal Empire there is a single surviving work of prose written by a woman: the memoir of the brave and brilliant Princess Gulbadan. A participant in the innermost circles ...

Ahmad Lahauri is believed to have been the main architect of the Taj Mahal. Wikimedia Commons Occasionally, I have devoted this column to a Smithsonian exhibition that has had a special personal ...

The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, and two throne chairs are part of the Royal Collection in London. These items were acquired after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and symbolize the ...

Mughal dynasty in India: The Mughal dynasty forms an integral and vital part of India’s medieval and modern history. The once glorious empire collapsed after the arrest and imprisonment of the last ...

For centuries in the Islamic world, books have been treasured as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true for India’s Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy ...

"Imagine a land where the sun once set on a gilded empire and rose on the flag of a foreign crown. This is the story of India’s transformation—from the grandeur of the Mughal Peacock Throne to the ...