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Publisher: Prakash Books India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Author: Ghob Singh Verma | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 180 (8 Color Illustrations) | |
| Cover: Paperback | |
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8.5 inch X 5.5 inch |
| Edition: 2007 | |
| ISBN: 9788172340803 | |
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IHL503 |
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‘Mughal Romance' is Mughal history fictionalised. The book is die formidable collection of erotica which in itself is a great revelation. This erotically appealing love treatise is replete with unnerving, and at the same time, entertaining stories which will leave you enraptured and enthralled. It is like a multicoloured tapestry woven thick with liasions of emperors, princes, queens, princesses and commoners alike, based on the accounts of the contemporary historians, chroniclers and travellers. It is strewn with erotic verses, lyrics, couplers, and Persian and Sanskrit odes, which serves as a golden thread interfacing the tapestry. The author takes you on a filght to the ethereal regions of romantic escapades, torrid affairs, and lascivious frolics of the sultans of Malwa. The book portrays, in graphic details, the sensual peccadilloes of the bored, restless shrinking violets’ - the Mughal princesses. History is a long and tedious task of recording the toll of human life and the utter devastations wreaked by the sword and the bullet — but this treatise, though in the form of fiction, vividly and fascinatingly records the ruins and havocs left in their wake by love affairs, court intrigues, envies, jealousies, terrible vengeance, etc. A wholly abosorbing account of incidents and anecdotes which will quicken the reader’s heartbeats and leave him spellbound.
I am thankful to the Archaelogical Survey of India, Agra’s Librarian, Mr. R.S. Dube for according me various facilities.
I am grateful to my wife, Mrs. Jaya and children who bore with me during my preoccupations with this write-up, giving me the benefit of their patience in good measures.
My ample thanks are due to Mr. S.N. Mudgal for his special linguistic contribution to the manuscript of this work. I am also thankful to Mr. Ashwani Sabharwal, Chief Executive of Prakash Books and other members of the team far the publication and timely release of the book.
| I | Babur and Humayun | |
| Paradise Lands | 1 | |
| II | Akbar | |
| 1. Birth of an Emperor | 9 | |
| 2. When an Avenging Arrow Struck Akbar | 11 | |
| 3. The Ever Expanding Seraglio of Akba1 | 13 | |
| 4. Akbar’s jamboree: The Nauroz (A New Year Day) Celebrations | 15 | |
| 5. Two Love Tragedies Which Shook Agra | 17 | |
| 6. A Lucky Rocky Ridge | 25 | |
| 7. Meena Bazaar (A Fancy Fair of Fair Sex). | 29 | |
| 8. When A Saint Browbeat The Mighty Emperor | 31 | |
| 9. How Akbar Satisfied His Curiosities | 34 | |
| 10. Faqirs Who Proved to be Deceitful and Coward | 38 | |
| 11. Birbal-Whose Death Akbar Mourned Twice | 40 | |
| III | Malwa, Mandu and its Sultans | |
| 1. Malwa; An Abode of Kamdeva | 45 | |
| 2. Mandu: The City of joy | 46 | |
| 3. An Octogenarian, Licentious Sultan | 48 | |
| 4. A Patricide, Drowned In the pond (of Sex) | 52 | |
| 5. Akbar And Malwa’s Cultural Renaissance Under Baz Bahadur-Rupmati | 55 | |
| IV | Jahangir | |
| 1. Baby Salim — A Darling of All | 60 | |
| 2. A Prince Soaked in Wine And Sunk in Women | 63 | |
| 3. An Adolescent Prince — Shahzada Salim | 67 | |
| 4. The Honeymoon of A Dewy-eyed Royal Couple | 69 | |
| 5. The Rebels’ Secret Rendezvous at Jagner | 75 | |
| 6. A Trinity of Jahangir-Nur Jahan - Sher Afghan | 79 | |
| 7. Nur Jahan The Most Privileged Mughal Empress | 83 | |
| 8. A Henpecked Emperor | 87 | |
| 9. A Lover of Flattery And Justice | 91 | |
| V | Shah Jahan | |
| 1. A Ne’er Lust - Wearied Monarch. | 94 | |
| 2. An Ever Expecting Queen | 98 | |
| 3. A Possessive Father | 100 | |
| 4. How the Portuguese Escaped the Wrath of Shah Jahan | 102 | |
| 5. A Lascivious Princess | 104 | |
| 6. When Prince Dara Became Victim of a Courtesan | 109 | |
| VI | Aurangzeb | |
| 1. When Aurangzeb Painted on Seeing A Damsel | 112 | |
| 2. The Last Days of A Captive Monarch | 116 | |
| 3. An Amorous Sister Roshanara | 103 | |
| 4. Marriages Among Royal Cousins | 125 | |
| 5. How The Mughals Flouted Their own Regulations | 152 | |
| 6. When An Envious King Disgraced His Wazir | 154 | |
| 7. Her Beauty Killed Her | 139 | |
| 8. A 17th Century General Loved His Wives so Much that He Killed Them | 144 | |
| 9. A Rangeela Badshah | 146 | |
| 10. Gunna Begum — A Talented Beauty who was Married to a Wazir but Ended up as a Bondmaid | 150 | |
| VII | Later Mughals — the Nominal Sovereigns of Delhi. | |
| 1. Delhi Under the Dominion of the Lord of n Misrule Jahandar Shah and Lal Kunwar | 153 | |
| 2. Delhi Ruled by Debauch Emperors, Queen Mother and an All-Powerful Eunuch | 158 | |
| 3. Mughlani Begum — an Agent and Procuress of Ahmed Shah Abdali. | 158 | |
| VIII | Appendices: | |
| A. The Title Names of Queens and Princesses | 171 | |
| B. The Title Names of Mistresses and Concubines | 175 | |
| C. The Names of Matrons | 174 | |
| D. Title Names of the Superintendents of the Dancers and the Singers | 175 | |
| E. Title Names of Principal Slave-Women | 177 | |
| F. Genealogy of Great Mughals | 178 | |
| G. Genealogy of Later Mughals | 179 |
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