دانلود کتاب Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

In 1526 a Timurid warrior-scholar rides into Delhi to build an empire. With himride his wives, his sisters, his daughters, his aunts and his distant female relatives.Unhindered by a relatively recent conversion to Islam, these women will helpfound a culture of such magnificence and beauty that it will become a by-wordfor opulence in the world. These Mughal women of Hindustan—unmarrieddaughters, eccentric sisters, fiery milk-mothers and beautiful wives, willcontribute to the great syncretic culture of the Mughals by writing biographies,building monuments, engaging in diplomacy, and patronizing the arts. And evenas the zenana changes from the earlier nomadic, tented spaces to the later moresequestered grandeur within the high stone walls of mighty qilas, the influenceof the women remains visible and unquestioned. This book looks at the lives ofthese Mughal women, and the enigma of their disappearance, except as objectsof curiosity, from our collective memory.