Lamp for the Dark World - Akbar, India''s Greatest Mughal

Informationen zum Autor Parvati Sharma's debut The Dead Camel and Other Stories of Love earned her a cult following for its depictions of love and sexuality in urban India, and its 'lightness [and] lucidity'. She has also written a novella, Close to Home, and two books for children, The Story of Babur and Rattu & Poorie's Adventures in History: 1857. Her first biography, Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of the Great Mughal (Juggernaut, 2018), was acclaimed as an "audacious, conversational history... [that] stands out", and for its "psychologically penetrating portrayal". Klappentext Deeply researched and beautifully written, Parvati Sharma's portrait of Akbar the Great brings alive as never before a man imperfect and extraordinary, who ruled for fifty years and has lived in the Indian imagination for close to half a millennium. Zusammenfassung Deeply researched and beautifully written, Parvati Sharma’s portrait of Akbar the Great brings alive as never before a man imperfect and extraordinary, who ruled for fifty years and has lived in the Indian imagination for close to half a millennium.

Product details

• Authors: Parvati Sharma, Sharma Parvati
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2023
• EAN: 9781538177891
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7789-1
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Asia / South / General