That's a timely Q. I just finished reading "Feast of Roses" by Indu Sundaresan. It's the second book on Nur Jahan. The 1st is The Twentieth Wife and I haven't read that yet. A fascinating read and makes the Mughal era come to life. A formidable woman who was the power behind the throne of Jahangir at a time when women were just supposed to hangout in the harem. Descriptive, evocative, the staggering wealth and scale of living come to life. The plotting and scheming of the people seem very real.
Frankly, I was never a fan of Mughal history because of the way it was thrust on us at school - dates to mug up, wars to remember, and dry accounts of # of elephants and camels and horses - I used to tune out. Now if they had books like these.. it made me curious about history and I started googling on the Mughal emperors. Cheers Sandhya On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dava Sobel's Longitude is a fascinating account of how longitude was > fixed. > > I never realized how challenging this task was. > > On that note, < > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17239116-everest---the-first-ascent> > is an interesting read as well. > > > -- > sankarshan mukhopadhyay > <https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay> > >
