Saturday, December 17, 2016

Word portrait of Emperor Auraungzeb--one of the most doctrinaire, and the last of the Moghul Dynasty--

http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/Jackson5/chapter15.html

died at age 90, reigned 50 years, so you can imagine how the people suffered.

This website is invaluable, as it gives Timur's, Babur's,  Humuyan's and Jahangir and Shah Jahan's memoirs too, all translated from the original chronicles

and all free on line too.

posted 12-17-2016

This one is good--the girl from the North and the eunuch. Can't say more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4a7UY3_8rI There have been Dowager Empresses who fell in love with eunuchs, for e.g Dowager Empress CiXi...