In 1739, Persian ruler Nadir Shah invaded Delhi, defeated the Mughal army, and carried out a brutal sack of the city. Among ...

Shah Jahan commissioned the Peacock Throne in 1628, completed after seven years of craftsmanship at a cost of 10 million ...

Long before borders divided India and Pakistan, Mughal cities were mapped through direction and power. Delhi’s Red Fort opened towards Lahore, while Lahore’s historic gate faced Delhi, reflecting ...

Last year, on November 10, a car bomb exploded near the seventeenth-century Mughal-era Red Fort in New Delhi, India. The car bomber was a Moslem medical doctor Umar Un Nabi, and an assistant professor ...