Audrey Truschke, Parvati Sharma, Rana Safvi, Ira Mukhoty | Jaipur Literature Festival

Описание: The Great Mughal Debate: What Did the Mughals Do for Us?: Audrey Truschke, Parvati Sharma, Rana Safvi & Ira Mukhoty

Audrey Truschke is Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University-Newark. 2015. Her first book, Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court, was published in 2016. Her second book, Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth, was published in 2017 and is a historical reassessment of one of the most hated kings in South Asian history. More broadly she publishes on cross-cultural exchanges, historical memory and imperial power.

Parvati Sharma‘s first work of non-fiction, Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal, has been described as ‘an audacious, conversational history’ that ‘treats the emperor as a literary character: ambiguous, self-contradicting, unheroic’. She is also the author of The Dead Camel and Other Stories of Love; Close to Home and a book for children, The Story of Babur.

Rana Safvi is an author, translator, columnist and blogger deeply interested in India’s syncretic culture, which she documents via its history, cultural heritage, monuments, clothes, food and festivals. She is the founder of the popular Twitter forum #shair that helped revive interest in Urdu poetry.

Ira Mukhoty is the author of Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History, and Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire. While living in Delhi, she developed an interest in the evolution of mythology and history and its relevance to the status of women in India. Mukhoty is particularly interested in the way history is manipulated to suit changing narratives and the need to present historical non-fiction in an accessible way. She is currently working on her third project, a biography of Akbar the Great.

The Great Mughal Debate: What Did the Mughals Do for Us
There has recently a renaissance in the writing of Mughal and Maratha history and a spectacular outpouring of books that have brought early modern India to vivid new life. Three of the most celebrated practitioners talk about their work in conversation with Ira Mukhoty.
Presented by Aga Khan Foundation

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Links to the other session by Audrey Truschke:    • Audrey Truschke, Charles Spencer, Parvati ...  
Links to the other session by Parvati Sharma:    • Audrey Truschke, Charles Spencer, Parvati ...  
Links to the other session by Rana Safvi:    • Rana Safvi, Salman Khurshid, Zulfikar Hirj...  
Links to the other session by Ira Mukhoty:    • Ira Mukhoty, Ruby Lal, Parvati Sharma | Ja...  

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