A picture of the glory days of Awadh in the eighteenth century, the book draws connections between global events of the time, ...

Taxes on crops were levied during the Mughal rule, and revenue was primarily based on taxes. This was known as jama and hasil. The amount of fixed and collected tax was based on this. However, the ...

A large Mughal-era carpet faces a video of the Taj ... Jahangir took artists with him as his court traveled across the empire, and there’s a space dedicated to their pictorial documentations ...

Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They ...

Eminent Distorians’ by Utpal Kumar is not a filtered history; it is neither economical nor political with truth, scooping out ...

The proclamation of a “golden ... that golden age probably was tarnished a bit for Christians in the Coliseum and people in other countries who didn’t like being part of the empire and tried ...

His reign was marked by a series of significant battles, each strategically crucial in shaping the Maratha empire and challenging the established Mughal and ... At the young age of 16, Shivaji ...

Banning Airbnbs and cruise ships. Taxing visitor stays. Capping attendance figures. Has tourism become a dirty word in 2025? According to the UN World Tourism Organisation, there were 1.4 billion ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Both men were Syrian Nestorians, a denomination of Christianity considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire ... and medicine during the Islamic golden age. Averroës, author of some of ...

The Song dynasty ruled China from 960 to 1279, marking a period of economic prosperity, technological advances and cultural ...