Category: History
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Art 2. Vol 5. 2026 The Family That Kept Killing ItselfPower, Patricide, and the Haryanka Dynasty’s Fatal Pattern We begin with a family dinner that did not go well. Around 492 BCE, in the kingdom of Magadha in what is now Bihar, a king named Bimbisara was imprisoned by his own son. The son’s name…
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Art 4. Vol 4. 2026 There is a temptation, when beginning the story of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, to begin at Panipat. That is where conventional histories often begin him: a Central Asian prince arrives in Hindustan, defeats Ibrahim Lodi in 1526 and establishes what would become the Mughal Empire. But Babur himself would have recognised…
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Art 1. Vol 3. 2026 A Guide to the Governance and Political Institutions in the Medieval Rajput States The medieval Rajput kingdoms occupied a significant place in the political landscape of northern and western India between the eighth and sixteenth centuries. While they are frequently remembered for their military traditions and resistance to external invasions,…
