A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREAT MOGHULS

Bamber Gascoigne’s The Great Moghuls is a delightful read. The book offers a detailed account on lives of each of the 6 great Mughals, with the prologue and epilogue discussing Timur (their ancestor) and later Mughals respectively. This 50 year old research will definitely add to the knowledge of both beginners of Mughal history as well as veterans.

Very interesting read ....a bit concise but gives an overall picture of the timres and life

I think if you really want to know Mughal history not only from favour of the Mughals but in right or fairly view you have to buy this book first you feel this is very boring and very long but believe me when you start reading political tension between them it feels you like a battle movie so must buy and photograps are also amazing so you must read it at once thank you.

Very nice book, must read for history lovers.Good background depiction and historical facts without much of spice and drama. Loved it.

Great description by Bamber Gascoigne. It gave me answer to lots of questions and opened up new questions. Book content is great, page quality is good and lightweight.

No doubt about the content, it is really good. BUT the book is fake as the binding is wrong, photos are black and white which supposed to be coloured.

Good book

This was an incredible read. I've read about Mughal history at school and read biographies of select mughal rulers, but this little book is just perfect. It's funny, the narrative style is brilliant. It's the kind of book i would gift to someone. Was expecting glossier pages and colourful pictures. But I guess that's too much to ask for at this price.

It took forever to come but it was free shipping so that's expected. Still reading it, nice illustrations.

Starter for ten!Yes! its -that- Bamber Gascoigne, he of the big square noggin and unruly red hair, so beloved of 1970's university drop-outs and other greasers.This is, at first, the story of one Babur (Babur Gascoigne, haw) direct descendent of the much vaunted mass murderer Tamberlane.Babur who, as an young introducee to the eternal Art of War, lost every battle he fought in, at first. At one diabolically low point in his career, he became a simple vagabond warrior, left to poke a twig into the bone-dry sands of Samarqand and draw stick figures with it each and every day, all day, such was his ill-luck.Little did he realise that this luck was about to change and that one day his descendants would own an empire that in effect controlled most of the northern Indian sub-continent. Indeed, it was only the Hindu Maratha menace and the whims of the English East Indian Co. (The Company) that eventually brought it all crashing down around the place (and it's still a big place) centuries, yes centuries, later.But it's not all about conquest, oh no. The Mughals (aka Mongols, Mogols, Mugals) loved their architecture, calligraphy, high fashion and other fine arts according to their Islamic beliefs. You can still come across countless traces of all of this today (especially in Pakistan, Afghanistan or other modern day places where (rival) Hinduism didn't successfully prevail or even survive/exist). This is all rather subjective to me as a reader as I see the Mughals often as defined by their eventual nemeses.A grand book, written in prose that is lively but beetle-browed and University lecturer-who-got-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-bed disdainful when it needs to be.Loved it. And so will you.

Excelent narrative of various glorious periods of Indian History. An exhibit at the British Museum on the subject helped to understand the magnificent art and culture of the time.

This book is a great primer on the achievements of the Mughal Empire in the realms of, not only politics, military and economics, but also art and architecture. The style of writing is accessible yet sophisticated, with a number of humorous passages. Would definitely recommend!

Good book, fast service. Bamber Gascoigne is a true master at telling the art of history