Attendant lords : Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim : courtiers & poets in Mughal India / T.C.A. Raghavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raghavan, T. C. A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khan, Bairam, 1524?-1561.

Khan, Bairam.

Abdula Rahīma, Khan Khanan, 1556-1627.

Abdula Rahīma.

Nobility--Mogul Empire--Biography.

Nobility.

Poets, Persian.

Mughal Empire--Court and courtiers--Biography.

Mughal Empire.

Poets, Persian--Mogul Empire--Biography.

Poets, Hindi--1500-1800--Biography.

Poets, Hindi.

Mughal Empire--Politics and government.

Courts and courtiers.

Politics and government.

India--Mughal Empire.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 337 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India] : HarperCollins Publishers India, [2017]

Summary:

Bairam Khan and his son, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan were soldiers, poets and courtiers whose lives reflected the turbulent times they lived in. In telling their stories, Attendant Lords spans the reigns of four emperors - Babur, Humayun, Akbar and Jahangir - and covers over a hundred years of Mughal history, a time when these two noblemen were at the very heart of the court's labyrinthine politics. -- After Humayun's untimely death, Bairam Khan was regent to the young Emperor Akbar for four critical years. Bairam's own son, Abdur Rahim, became one of the most important generals of the Mughal Empire, but he is best remembered for his literary prowess, most particularly for his famous 'dohas'. Literature plays a large part in this story. -- This unusual dual biography traces the lives of these two noblemen against the backdrop of the courtly intrigues, brutal power struggles and the grand literary endeavours of the Mughal court. And it looks at their afterlives - how politics and the Hindi-Urdu debate reincarnated them as national heroes; how both men came to be seen as standing at the confluence of Hinduism and Islam; how their life stories have undergone subtle transformations; and how history, religion and literature combine in the broader context of nationalism and nation building. --

Contents:

Introduction

1. Bairam

2. The young noble

3. The senior commander

4. The Deccan

5. The twilight years

6 Afterlife: Rahiman and Abdur Rahim.

Notes:

Maps on lining paper.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330) and index.

ISBN:

9789352643011

9352643011

OCLC:

975810627

Publisher Number:

99976093026