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The emperor who never was : Dara Shukoh in Mughal India /
Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is lionized in South Asia, while Aurangzeb, who presided over the beginnings of imperial disintegration, is scorned. Supriya Gandhi's nuanced biography asks whether the stor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is lionized in South Asia, while Aurangzeb, who presided over the beginnings of imperial disintegration, is scorned. Supriya Gandhi's nuanced biography asks whether the story really would have been different with Dara in power. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674243900 9780674243903 9780674243910 0674243919 |