01629nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100120008008200220009210000250011424500670013926000350020630000320024136500300027352009420030370000270124594200120127299900190128495201080130320220422132358.0220422b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0141001437  cAL  aEnglish  223a954.025bERAE  aAbraham Eraly930926  aEmperors of the Peacock Throne: The Saga of the Great Mughals   aNew DelhibPenguin Booksc2000  axviii,555 p.bPBc24x15 cm.  b₹295.00c₹d₹295.00  aA 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.  aERALY (Abraham)930927  2ddccGF  c222559d222559  00102ddc40708HISaALbALd2013-03-24l0o954.025 ERAEpGF03059r2022-04-22 00:00:00w2022-04-22yGF