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The country is about to celebrate its Independence Day on August 15. But do you know why the Tricolor is hoisted only at the ...
New Delhi: When Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his beloved wife Begum Mumtaz Mahal, the thought behind it ...
There is a state in India which was never ruled by the British. That state was ruled by the Portuguese for about 450 years.
The Mughal Empire ruled over most of modern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In the early 16th century, a warrior prince named Babur marched east from central ...
Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of India’s last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in poverty in Howrah, ...
The Mughal Empire was left in pieces, ruled in part by local princes - most of whom had sworn their loyalty to the East India Company to keep some power. In August 1858, the British passed the ...
Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, the major fall exhibit at the British Library in London, which runs until April, is rare in spanning the entire arc of the empire.