#moghul

[theincomparablemeenakumari]

Rarest of rare portrait of Meena ji standing in front of the grand Gulabi Mahal, she looks absolutely breathtaking here!

Circa Early 60s

[flotsamfrommichigan]

Sarah Coventry "Temple-Lites" Brooch

https://flotsamfrommichigan.etsy.com/listing/1726359253

[lionofchaeronea]

Man in Armor (preparatory sketch for Entering the Mosque), Edwin Lord Weeks, 1885

[gemville]

Modern Moghul's Mahtab Ring In Rhodium Plated Sterling Silver and Gold Vermeil With A 13.65 Carat Tanzanite Cabochon and 1.96 CTW White Diamonds

Photo Courtesy: Modern Moghul

Source: jckonline.com

[mothmiso]

My City: Lahore (2) (3) (4) (5) by hasham2

Via Flickr:

(1) Tomb of Slave king. Qutub ud-Din Aybak (Persian: قُطْبُ ٱلْدِّين أَيْبَك‎), (1150–1210), was the founder of the Mamluk dynasty and the first sultan of the Delhi Sultanate. (2) Hazuri bagh and Fort. (3) Moghul Throne. (4) Ancient Well house. (5) Pigeon with home surrounded by ancient artwork.     

[gesray]

[menubot]

The Moghul Room (1970) http://menus.nypl.org/menus/27820

[balladedutempsjadis]

“It’s plain that in his time the best response to the death of a parent was to dive for cover and plot one’s siblings’ deaths, knowing that those siblings would be filled with similarly loving thoughts about you.”

- Salman Rushdie, Introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (translated, edited, and annotated by Wheeler M. Thackston)

Having recently finished The Persians, by Lloyd Lewellyn-Jones, in which the Achemaenid dynasty behaved the same way, and currently reading The Lords of the Deccan, and being a little familiar with Ottoman, Byzantine and Roman history I would say murdering rival claimants to the throne, whether siblings, nephews, cousins, or what have you was a feature, not a bug, of hereditary monarchies the world over. The bigger the empire (and thence the stakes) the more relatives you had to kill to get your hands on it.

[triviareads]

Remembering how excited I was to see Oak Tree Road mentioned in a romance novel.

[whencyclopedia]

Black Hole of Calcutta

The Black Hole of Calcutta refers to a prison cell which was used to hold 146 mostly British prisoners captured after the Nawab of Bengal had taken over the city from the East India Company. Interred on 20 June 1756 in a tiny cell in Fort William, 123 of the prisoners died of dehydration and suffocation.

The number of the Black Hole deaths may have been exaggerated, but testimonies to the event actually happening are numerous. The East India Company used the story as a justification for taking over Calcutta completely. It was really in the next century, though, that knowledge of the incident was spread through textbooks and literature as one of a host of equally dubious means to justify Britain's colonial presence in India. The incident's grip on the popular imagination can be seen in the long-lasting use of the expression "like the Black Hole of Calcutta" to refer to any dark and forbidding place.

Background

In the mid-18th century, the British East India Company (EIC) was seeking to expand its control of trade and territory in India. The rich region of Bengal was an obvious target, and Calcutta (Kolkata) became a major trading port for the company. The French East India Company was also present in the region at Chandernagore (Chandannagar) further up the coast. Balancing between these two foreign companies, both essentially representatives of their respective government's imperial ambitions in India, was the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah (b. 1733), nominally under the suzerainty of the Moghul emperors in Delhi. Siraj ud-Daulah wanted to remove the EIC from Calcutta since it would not pay to improve the city's fortifications, and so he marched on the city in June 1756. A short siege followed, and the city fell. The fate of those captured was the source of the infamous Black Hole legend.

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[theincomparablemeenakumari]

Rarest of rare portrait of Meena ji during her reading sessions on the sets of Pakeezah. My jaw drops every time I gaze this portrait! She looks absolutely intoxicating here!!!❤️🌛

Circa Early 60s

[supergirlmayhem]

the catco bet

Kara and Lena are close. Like, really close. Except they’re the only ones who haven’t realized it. A certain media moghul starts a bet of when they'll get together. It kind of gets out of hand.

Check out this new work added to the 2024 collection by @sarcastic-pun-master HERE and the accompanying artwork by EmaginationStudios HERE.

[cawcawkarasu]

Playing Priest

Unknown to people, the media moghul had a hobby he executed on Sabbath. Alas, it was the day when people confessed their sins the most.

“Father, forgive me for I have sinned again,” the woman sobbed as soon as she knelt.

The priest for the day glanced at her, his golden eyes noting the pentagon jade ring on the woman’s trembling left hand. She bowed her head, but the round hat was still recognizable. The wife of the popular bread store across the street, Milverton made the connection. Not a big client, but it was okay.

“I’m listening, my child.”

[writingsofwesteros]

BREAKING-King's Landing Daily- Young Targaryen Heir and Heiress Aegon and Daenora Targaryen spotted partying deep in the City just weeks after the death of longstanding patriarch, Viserys Targaryen.

It seems that the death of business moghul Viserys Targaryen was only the beginning of the dynastic family's problems. After the head of the Targaryen clan finally succumbed to his illness, the fractures in the Targaryen family became more evident to the public eye. Sources say that Alicent Hightower lawyered up the day Viserys took his last breath to make sure that the company went to her eldest son Aegon, meanwhile Rhaenyra, Viserys's firstborn, faces not only her stepmother and former friend in the boardroom but also the board of directors, who she'll need to prove to that she has what it takes after years of wild, messy escapades. Meanwhile, the party scene's darkest corners are painted silver by the presence of Aegon and Daenora Targaryen, who've been at every hot club and exclusive party this city has to offer, much to their mother's chagrin, no doubt. While Helaena and Aemond have fallen off the public radar, Aegon and Daenora are faced with cameras at even the seediest clubs, which was where shocking pictures of the siblings partaking in cocaine leaked online. The pictures were wiped from the internet but not our collective memories by none other than their grandfather, Otto Hightower. It seems that the Targaryen dynasty is standing at a crossroads, and time will tell whether they will come out stronger at the end, or if we'll finally see the downfall of a dynasty.

Videos that had circled online of the siblings dancing and being so incredibly close to each other - and people swear they saw them kiss. Of course, such footage is no longer available.

Aegon was caught with his pants down, literally - not that he cared and the reaction was ..wild

[oldsardens]

Abdur Rahman Chughtai - A Moghul Prince