Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the ...

Mughal-E-Azam redefined Indian cinema with its grandeur. Made on a Rs 1.5 crore budget, it took 16 years to complete. The ...

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The historical part of the book ends at the ‘classical age’ of ancient India, and attention is specifically drawn towards the likes of Ashoka and the Mauryan empire ... Mughal periods erases a ...

The sixth emperor of the famed Mughal ... explosion of art and culture as well as periods of deep religious syncretism – at least until Aurangzeb. Founded by Babur in 1526, the empire at its ...

A war of succession followed ... of his forts and pay a visit to Aurangzeb's court. A 20th century painting by MV Dhurandhar, depicting Chhatrapati Shivaji at the court of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb ...

The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the ... British to commemorate. In paintings and sculpture, artists of the time recreated the moment. The scene when Lord Cornwallis ...

The Mughal emperors retain a fraught significance in the politics of South Asia today. Pakistan has named nuclear warheads after them, while India has removed their names from streets. But those ...

His guerrilla tactics, administrative reforms, and naval strategy helped build the Maratha Empire, defying Mughal ... often took women as spoils of war, Shivaji set a strict code of conduct. When a ...

He is a force of nature, a demon of war who takes on dozens of men alone ... sheer brutality of it sends shivers down every Mughal spine and shook the very foundations of the Mughal Empire. There is a ...

Early in the film, when Sambhaji maims a lion, it becomes clear that it is going be a literal cinematic depiction of Calendar art by Utekar ... be a vassal of the Mughal empire, when Sambhaji ...

He is a force of nature, a demon of war who takes on dozens of men alone ... sheer brutality of it sends shivers down every Mughal spine and shook the very foundations of the Mughal Empire. There is a ...