I so wish our schools had made a little effort to make History an interesting subject for us. Besides making us better citizens with an awareness of our rich past, this social science has the potential to help us make informed choices about our future through learnings and inferences. Provided we have authors and teaches like Audrey Truschke.
The importance of Sanskrit in the Mughal courts during the dynasty's golden period (Akbar to Shah Jahan) and the way it helped shape Persian literature, is an invaluable piece of history which non-historians like us will mostly be unaware of. The contributions made by Jains and Brahmans in educating the Mughals about Sanskrit through its myriad manifestations in the epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata as well as in poetry and prose of other literary works enriched philosophy, culture and the Mughal way of life in and outside of the royal corridors. Indians found a way to earn concessions on taxes from their Mughal rulers due to their personal influences in the court.
This book is a delightful journey into the long forgotten history of the Mughals and about aspects of their courtly life which other scholars, historians and Indologists have shied away from researching.
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