Jahangir Mughal of India

MMB also has strong coverage of writers, scholars, and activists, like Anne Askew , Mary Astell (whose uncle she credits with having generously tutored her), and Ann Bacon . She seems to have excluded the...

In A Prince of DreamersFAS again avails herself of a multicultural range of characters. Akbar himself, very much the centre of the book, is flanked not only by Indians but also by Jesuit missionaries...

The protagonist of Mistress of Men is Nur Jahan or Light of the World, who begins her life as an unwanted girl baby who is exposed but then rescued. She grows up to shoot tigers...

This was the first one she wrote, though not the first chronologically, of a series of four novels tracing the lives of the Mughal dynasty from Babar through Akbar, Humayan , and Jahangir , to...