Volume 54, Number 18 · November 22, 2007
The Most Magnificent Muslims
By William Dalrymple
Goa and the Great Mughal
edited by Jorge Flores and Nuno Vassallo e Silva
Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/London: Scala, 240 pp., $60.00
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World
by Ruby Lal
Cambridge University Press,241 pp., $29.99 (paper)
The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra
by Ebba Koch, with drawings byRichard André Barraud
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., $75.00
On October 15, 1542, a baby was born to a fugitive prince and his fifteen-year-old wife in the Sindhi desert town of Umarkot. The prince had been driven from his throne in Delhi, and fleeing westward through the wastes of Rajasthan toward Persia, he survived by eating horsemeat boiled in the helmets of his last bodyguards. Nothing about the circumstances of the birth looked promising, yet the horoscope cast for the child by his father was auspicious in every detail—and rightly so, as it turned out.
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