Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

In 1526 a Timurid warrior-scholar rides into Delhi to build an empire. With him ride his wives, his sisters, his daughters, his aunts and his distant female relatives. Unhindered by a relatively recen…

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