01700nam a2200193   4500008004100000020001800041037002000059041001200079082002000091100002000111245008400131250000600215260003400221300000800255500117900263650002101442650001801463650002501481260626b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789353026158  cGiftednUnknown  aEnglish  a954.025bRAG/AT  aRaghavan, T.C.A  aATTENDANT LORDSb: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim Coutiers & Poets in Mughal India  a1  aHaryanabHarper Collinsc2017  g337  aBairam Khan and his son, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan were soldiers, poets and courtiers whose lives reflected the turbulent times they lived in. In telling their stories, Attendant Lords spans the reigns of four emperors -- Babur, Humayun, Akbar and Jahangir -- and covers over a hundred years of Mughal history, a time when these two noblemen were at the very heart of the court's labyrinthine politics. After Humayun's untimely death, Bairam Khan was regent to the young Emperor Akbar for four critical years. Abdur Rahim became one of the most important generals of the Mughal Empire, but he is best remembered for his literary prowess, most particularly for his famous 'dohas'. This unusual dual biography traces the lives of these two noblemen against the backdrop of the courtly intrigues, brutal power struggles and the grand literary endeavours of the Mughal court. And it looks at their afterlives -- how politics and the Hindi-Urdu debate reincarnated them as national heroes; how both men came to be seen as standing at the confluence of Hinduism and Islam; and how history, religion and literature combine in the broader context of nationalism and nation building.  aHistory of India  aMughal Empire  aCollective biography