Aurangzeb’s akhbarat: The empire that ran on news reports – and what they reveal about Mughal India

Beginning in 2007, he immersed himself in the Akhbarat-i Darbar-i Mualla (Newsletters of the Exalted Court), a vast collection preserved in archives across India and Britain. Working through more than 6,500 pages in Kolkata’s National Library, he followed princes, generals, courtiers, royal women, imperial eunuchs and many others through tens of thousands of entries. The […]

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