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Human faces of emperors

First came William Dalrymple, then Alex Rutherford. While the former used primary sources, not considered important by stiff necked historians, to bring to life civil and common society, Alex  Rutherford , the pseudonym of Diana and Michael  Preston, has brilliantly interpreted the character and motivations of emperors from the Mughal dynasty. The Tainted Throme is […]

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