An ambitious portrait of Akbar that plays ... The best artists would sketch, the others would take over later. Zaman’s book isn’t an easy read. Too many characters make an appearance in ...

The third Mughal Emperor, Akbar ... in character — and yet, from the cracks between the anecdotes, there appears a man so wholly neither one thing nor another that he will not make sense when ...

The question is if the revolt was historically as significant as cultural activists and writers make us believe ... political evolution. Akbar was perhaps the first emperor in the long history ...