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A self confessed word-a-holic and a traveller, Tanushree is sure to be packing her bags and boots to zip around the world when not brandishing her pen. With two successful novels, few best-selling non-fiction titles and a few hundred travel tales under her belt, she is all set to launch into yet another voyage with words. A bundle of optimism with wandering feet and a kaleidoscope of dreams, she loves nothing better than flirting with clauses and phrases.

After leading a nomadic life for several decades, thanks to the Indian Army, she has finally grown roots at Pune.

OTHER INDIAINK TITLES
Anjana Basu	Black Tongue
Anjana Basu	Chinku and the Wolfboy
Anjum Hasan	Neti, Neti
A.N.D. Haksar	Madhav & Kama: A Love Story from Ancient India
Aseem Vadehra	A Chance at Happiness
Ayesha Salman	Blue Dust
Boman Desai	Servant, Master, Mistress
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni	The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni	The Conch Bearer
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni	Shadowland
Claudine Le Tourneur dlson	Hira Mandi
Greta Rana	Hidden Women: The Ruling Women of the Rana Dynasty
Haider Warraich	Auras of the Jinns
I. Allan Sealy	The Everest Hotel
I. Allan Sealy	Trotternama
Indrajit Hazra	The Garden of Earthly Delights
Jaspreet Singh	17 Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir
Jawahara Saidullah	The Burden of Foreknowledge
Kalpana Swaminathan	The Page 3 Murders
Kalpana Swaminathan	The Gardeners Song
Kamalini Sengupta	The Top of the Raintree
Kota Neelima	Death of a Moneylender
Madhavan Kutty	The Village Before Time
Manohar Malgonkar	A Bend in the Ganges
Manohar Malgonkar	Cactus Country
Paro Anand	Weed
Paro Anand	Pure Sequence
Rakesh Satyal	Blue Boy
Ranjit Lal	Black Limericks
Ranjit Lal	The Small Tigers of Shergarh
Ranjit Lal	The Simians of South Block and Yumyum Piglets
Rani Dharker	Anurima
Raza Mir & Ali Husain Mir	Anthems of Resistance: A Celebration ofProgressive Urdu Poetry
Sanjay Bahadur	The Sound of Water
Shandana Minhas	Tunnel Vision
Selina Sen	A Mirror Greens in Spring
Sudhir Thapliyal	Crossing the Road
Susan Visvanathan	Something Barely Remembered
Susan Visvanathan	The Visiting Moon
Susan Visvanathan	The Seine at Noon
Susan Visvanathan	Nelycinda and other Stories
Tanushree Podder	Boots Belts Berets
FORTHCOMING TITLES
Sanjay Bahadur	HUL Cry Rebel
Ranjit Lal	Bambi, Chops and Wags

Tanushree Podder, 2013

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Characters and significant events in this book are not fictitious; but personalities, interactions and thoughts, and words are figments of the authors imagination.

First published in 2013
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd
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Cover design: Saurav Das
Layout design: Sanjeev Mathpal
Production: Shaji Sahadevan

ISBN: 978-81-86939-76-5

For Ajoy
My guiding star my Polaris

Preface

The foundation of the great Mughal Empire in India was laid by Babar, a minor prince of Farghana in Afghanistan. Hounded by his rivals in Farghana, he crossed the rugged mountains to reach the rich territory of Hindustan, which was known as the Golden Bird in those days. Although Babar was a Turk, he claimed to have descended from Changez Khan on his mothers and Timur on his fathers side. To him goes the credit of establishing the Mughal dynasty in 1526, the word Mughal being an altered form of the word Mongol. Babars son, Humayun, a benevolent but weak ruler spent much of his time fleeing from or chasing his adversaries. His unceremonious death caused by falling from the staircase of his library brought an end to his turbulent rule.

It was his son Akbar, who proved to be the greatest Mughal ruler. An able administrator and shrewd statesman, he expanded the empire to encompass almost two-third of Hindustan. One of the most successful strategies devised by Akbar for the expansion of his empire was the matrimonial alliances with the proud Rajput kings.

Akbar ruled for five glorious decades, from 1556 to 1605, during which the Mughal Empire grew to be one of the wealthiest and ably-administered empires in the world. It became synonymous with splendour, power, wealth, and culture. It is said that the revenue earned by the Mughal Empire during Akbars reign amounted to more than seven times the revenue earned by the British through their colonies around the world. It was the era of architectural splendour when opulent structures like the Agra Fort and Lahore Fort were built. It was also the age of sublime music, miniature art forms, and spiritual liberalism.

Jahangir, the next Mughal ruler, inherited a rich empire that needed no great efforts to sustain. He went down in history as one who allowed his wife Nurjahan to hold the reins of the empire while he drowned himself in wine and opium. However, like other Mughal rulers before him, Jahangir too was a connoisseur of art and left a perfect account of his reign in the form of a diary, the Jahangirnama . His curious mind recorded every new thing a bird, a flower or a fruit that he came across. Whether it was his impressions about art, science, anatomy or nature, he left detailed accounts of his observations in his diary. The artefacts of this period are testimony to the splendour of the royal court of Jahangir.

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