01511nam a22002057a 4500 20220422132358.0 220422b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0141001437 AL English 23 954.025 ERAE Abraham Eraly 30926 Emperors of the Peacock Throne: The Saga of the Great Mughals New Delhi Penguin Books 2000 xviii,555 p. PB 24x15 cm. ₹295.00 ₹ ₹295.00 A stirring account of one of the world's greatest empires In December 1525, Zahir-ud-din Babur, descended from Chengiz Khan and Timur Lenk, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At Panipat, five months later, he fought the most important battle of his life and routed the mammoth army of Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, the Afghan ruler of Hindustan. Mughal rule in India had begun. It was to continue for over three centuries, shaping India for all time. In this definitive biography of the great Mughals, Abraham Eraly reclaims the right to set down history as a chronicle of flesh-and-blood people. Bringing to his task the objectivity of a scholar and the high imagination of a master storyteller, he recreates the lives of Babur, the intrepid pioneer; the dreamer Humayun; Akbar, the greatest and most enigmatic of the Mughals; the aesthetes Jehangir and Shah Jahan; and the dour and determined Aurangzeb. ERALY (Abraham) 30927 ddc GF 222559 222559 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 954.025 ERAE GF03059 2022-04-22 00:00:00 2022-04-22 GF