Mughal Empire Quotes

Coming to Rajasthan had been my idea, my dream. In the weeks before we arrived, I had tried and failed on numerous occasions to enthuse my family with the joys of travel in India; reading bits from the guidebooks, telling the children about the history of the Mughals, insisting to my daughter that she really would enjoy curry if it was in India.

When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.

Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.

Punjab history is hardly taught to students in schools.

The historical phase of India began with the Muslim invasion. Muslims were India's first historians.

I am from a place called Sardhana, which is near Meerut.

'Aurangzeb' for me is a right film, as there is action and drama.

The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.

I would have liked to be Birbal in Akbar's court, but a court jester also suits me just fine.

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.