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Ira Mukhoty

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Ira Mukhoty

@mukhoty

New book: The Lion and the Lily, amzn.in/d/2kkQicS. // & midlandbookshop.com/en/product/the…

New Delhi, India

Joined October 2014

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Ira Mukhoty
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Mar 2
My works of non-fiction, largely Mughal history
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Feb 3, 2023
Raja Bhup Singh of Guler beating the Himachali chill with a Begum, a razai and a hookah in 1790 Victoria and Albert museum
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Feb 23, 2023
Warren Hasting’s kebab recipe Even as charges for corruption were about to be framed against him, Hastings was enjoying Nawab Asaf’s company at Lucknow in July 1784, learning how to make kebabs British library, Hastings’ private diary
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Nov 6, 2023
Warren Hastings’ recipe for masala ‘stewed’ carp fish Written in Lucknow in 1784, in the company of Asaf ud Daula. Lots of garlic ginger coriander and dahi BL, Hastings diary of 1784
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Apr 4, 2023
In a fit of madness I once spent years researching the fictitious emperor of an imaginary empire. For goodness’ sakes don’t befuddle yourselves by reading it
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Nov 25, 2021
So proud to announce a new edition of Akbar:The Great Mughal, this time with maps! 👑
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May 2, 2020
Mohammad Darwesh Khan, Tipu Sultan’s ambassador to the court of Louis XVI in 1788, painted by a woman, Elizabeth Vigie Lebrun
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Oct 17, 2019
Ustad Mansur painted one of the finest images of a living dodo in 1625 for jahangir, just a few decades before it went extinct
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Oct 17, 2018
Akbar founder a city and this fort in the 16th c, and named it Illahabad to celebrate the pluralistic, syncretic ideals he had wrought together thru the Din e ilahi. Hodges, 1787
Ira Mukhoty
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Nov 25, 2021
So proud to announce a new edition of Akbar:The Great Mughal, this time with maps! 👑
Ira Mukhoty
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Jun 3, 2020
Thrilled to announce that hard copies of Akbar now available at all bookshops, and on Amazon. Pic credit thanks to ⁦@Books_at_Bahri⁩ 💕💕
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Apr 11, 2025
Exactly 5 years ago to the day, I wrote a biography of an emperor whose legacy becomes more precious and threatened with every passing year
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Sep 17, 2020
Those who view history in terms of ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’, wilfully disregard the complexities and frailties of human endeavours Sikandra, near Agra, tomb of the third of the Mughals of Hindustan
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Nov 11, 2024
When Akbar sniffily asked Tansen why he couldn’t sing as well as his guru, swami Haridas, Tansen’s answer put him in his place: I sing for the King of the earth whereas he sings for the King of Kings Akbar and Tansen visit Haridas 1750s, Rajasthani miniature school
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Jul 20, 2021
The largest Islamic carpet still in existence is the Ardabil carpet, commissioned by Shah Tahmasp for the shrine of his ancestor, completed in 1539-40. It has 304 knots per square inch Humayun may have seen it when he visited the region during his exile In the VnA