Aurangzeb: The ruler and his reputation Aurangzeb (1618–1707) ascended the Mughal throne in 1658 after a bloody war of succession against his brothers. Unlike his predecessors, Babur ...

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...

Aurangzeb Alamgir, the sixth ruler of the Mughal Empire, is the most hated king in Indian history. He was the last great ...

What happens when two visions for a kingdom collide—one driven by religious orthodoxy, the other by the spirit of ...

The historical gate standing on a traffic island in the capital city has a legacy of violence that continued to modern times ...

In a rundown slum on the outskirts of Kolkata, 60-year-old Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of India’s last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, struggles to survive. Once connected ...

He went on to execute his other brother, who had tried to claim the throne, before crowning himself emperor at the fort in Agra and would rule the Mughal Empire until 1657. Shah Jahan was a strong ...

When Adil Shah learned that Humayun had reclaimed the throne of Delhi ... Vikramaditya took advantage and launched an attack on the Mughal army. This was the Battle of Panipat, in which Hemu ...