Raja Todar Mal

male, deceased (1586)
Raja Todar Mal was born in Laharpur, in Oudh, and rose to become the Finance Minister in Akbar's Darbar. It was Todar Mal who overhauled the...
Tansen

Tansen

male, deceased (1589)
Miyan Tansen (1506-1589) is believed to have been the greatest North Indian musician of all time. He was instrumental in creating the classical...
Maham Anga

Maham Anga

female, deceased (1562)
Maham Anga (d.1562) was the wet nurse of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. She was the de facto regent of the Mughal state after the exclusion Bairam Khan...
Job Charnock

Job Charnock

male, deceased (1693)
Job Charnock (d. 1693) was regarded by few as the founder of Calcutta, however the Calcutta High Court ruling of May 16, 2003 clearly stated that...
Timur Shah Durrani

Timur Shah Durrani

male, deceased (1793)
Timur Shah Durrani (1748 - May 18, 1793) was ruler of Khorasan from October 16, 1772, until his death in 1793. He was the second son of Ahmad Shah...

François Bernier

male, deceased (1688)
François Bernier was a French physician and traveler, born at Joué-Etiau /Anjou. For 12 years he was the personal physician of the Mughal emperor Au...

Birbal

male, deceased (1586)
Raja Birbal (1528-1586) was a courtier in the administration of the Mughal emperor Akbar and one of his most trusted members along with being a...
Mirza Mughal

Mirza Mughal

male, deceased (1857)
Prince Mirza Mughal (1817 - 1857) was the fifth (and eldest surviving legitimate) son of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and heir apparent to the...
Muhammad Shaybani

Muhammad Shaybani

male, deceased (1510)
Abu 'I-Fath Muhammad, known in later centuries as Shaybani Khan (c. 1451 - 1510), was a khan of the Uzbeks (1500-10) who continued consolidating...

Tuzk-E-Jahangiri

male
"Tuzk-e-Jahangiri" or "Tuzk-i-Jahangiri" is the autobiography of Mughal Emperor Nor-u-Din Muhammad Jahangir (1569-1609). Tuzk-e-Jahangiri is...