Humayun Mughal of India

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...

RG wrote the life of an even more unusual literary figure in Gulbadan: Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court, 1980. Gulbadan (whose life-span coincides with that of Elizabeth I , except...

Babar, who lived in the sixteenth century, was descended from both Tamerlane and Genghis Khan . The book incorporates his private, family story, and the story of his acquisition first of the kingdom of Ferghana...