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Bijapur and Golconda. In the 1680s, after the Mughals conquered these two states, Maratha guerrilla raiders under the leadership of Shivaji Bhonsle, a charismatic Maratha Hindu warlord, began launching attacks against the Mughal armies occupying the Deccan.
William Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
After a prolonged rivalry between Golconda and Mughal Delhi, the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb finally captured and sacked Hyderabad in 1687,
William Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
After acceding to the Mughal throne in 1556, he gained the title Akbar the Great, which literally means Great the Great.
Anne Davison • THE MUGHAL EMPIRE ('In Brief' Books for Busy People Book 7)
After accepting Mecca’s surrender, Muhammad declared a general amnesty for most of his enemies, including those he had fought in battle. Despite the fact that tribal law now made the Quraysh his slaves, Muhammad declared all of Mecca’s inhabitants (including its slaves) to be free. Only six men and four women were put to death for various crimes,
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The Mughal House of Timur ruled most of South Asia for more than two hundred years and became arguably the greatest dynasty in Indian history. For many, the Mughals symbolise Islamic civilisation at its most refined and aesthetically pleasing—think of the great white dome of the Taj Mahal that Akbar’s grandson, Shah Jahan, raised in Agra in memory
... See moreWilliam Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
The Mughals, mostly during Babur’s four years in India, had developed a fearsome reputation for themselves. There was no army in India that thought about fighting the Mughals without some trepidation. Sometime before Humayun found himself in that predicament, he had gone in pursuit of the Sultan of Gujarat, Bahadur Shah, who had besieged Chittor.
... See moreManimugdha Sharma • Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today's India
Akbar’s sons, on the other hand, were born at a time of prolonged stability with no serious threat from outside invasion. Consequently, the princes were able to enjoy the wealth, luxury and leisure time denied to the earlier Mughal rulers. Rather than learning the art of war, they excelled in the art of debauchery, including an excess of wine,
... See moreAnne Davison • THE MUGHAL EMPIRE ('In Brief' Books for Busy People Book 7)
After having lived a monogamous life with Khadija for more than twenty-five years, Muhammad, in the course of ten years in Yathrib, married nine different women. With very few exceptions, these marriages were not sexual unions but political ones. This is not to say that Muhammad was uninterested in sex; on the contrary, the traditions present him
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