Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. See images for the condition of this book.
Blurb: This book provides a vivid psychological portrait in depth of the vice ridden Mogul royalty who in every way are as fascinating as European kings and queens. Among unforgettable characters are Akbar with his rude genius; opium-eater Jahangir and his power-mad consort Nur Jahan; the fiendish Princess Raushanara who secretly kept nine boys in her apartment to divert her and Aurangzeb, the most obsessive Mogul of them all. Seizing the peculiar dynamics of the dynasty itself.