Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, now lives in poverty in Kolkata ...

The fall of the Mughal Empire came in 1857 after the British forces successfully defeated Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, who had ...

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

The Mughal dynasty forms an integral and vital part of India's medieval and modern history. The once glorious empire ...

The Mughal Empire ruled over most of modern India ... This included 30,000 Hindu civilians, as well as many women and children who were taken as prisoners of war.

The Mughal Empire was founded in 1526 CE, peaked around 1700 and steadily declined into the 19th century, severely weakened by conflicts over succession. Mughal rule began with Zahiruddin Muhammad ...

The tensions showed how right-wing Hindu leaders and organizations in India use historical grievances to fuel contemporary ...

Lal has been fascinated by the Mughal empire since her years as a student ... It was all quite staggering to me — be it bartered women, dying children, the sense of a wider female community.” ...