The Kohinoor diamond continues to evoke an emotive response in India. Many call for its return from the United Kingdom, arguing that it was stolen by the British. Now, a UK minister has once again put ...

In 1526, he defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle of Panipat and established the Mughal Empire in northern India. Why Did They Never Go Back? Babur and his successors never returned to Central ...

He had argued that Indian Muslims do not idolise Babur and that it was Rana Sanga who "invited" Babur to India to defeat Ibrahim Lodi, the Sultan of Delhi, in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526.

The row over Rana Sanga erupted in March during a Rajya Sabha discussion in which Suman had responded to BJP leaders’ alleged claims that Muslims in India carried the “DNA of Babur”, founder of the ...

As the story goes, Gulbadan Begum, the sister of Humayun and aunt of Emperor Akbar, was fond of travelling, and often a large caravan would accompany her on her travels within the Mughal Empire ...

A Mughal emperor– better known for his love of art, wine, and luxury– made a quiet but remarkable decision that often goes unnoticed in history books. His decision to ban animal slaughter also ...

New Delhi: The first installment of NCERT’s revamped Class 7 textbooks has quietly erased every reference to the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, replacing the medieval section with ...