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Ira Mukhoty
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Ira Mukhoty
@mukhoty
New Delhi, India
Joined October 2014
- Raja Bhup Singh of Guler beating the Himachali chill with a Begum, a razai and a hookah in 1790 Victoria and Albert museum
- 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
- 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
- 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 itSo proud to announce a new edition of Akbar:The Great Mughal, this time with maps! 👑
- Mohammad Darwesh Khan, Tipu Sultan’s ambassador to the court of Louis XVI in 1788, painted by a woman, Elizabeth Vigie Lebrun
- Ustad Mansur painted one of the finest images of a living dodo in 1625 for jahangir, just a few decades before it went extinct
- 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
- So proud to announce a new edition of Akbar:The Great Mughal, this time with maps! 👑
- Thrilled to announce that hard copies of Akbar now available at all bookshops, and on Amazon. Pic credit thanks to @Books_at_Bahri 💕💕
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
