Analyzing how four generations of the Jhaveri family of Gujarat financed politics, he offers a fresh take on the dissolution of the Mughal empire, the birth of princely successor states, and the ...

Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in ... a new history from below of the ...

At the age of 53, Gulbadan Begum - daughter of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire - and 11 women from ... with the powerful men in her family - her father, her half-brother Humayun, and later ...