Juliana Dias da Costa

Juliana Dias da Costa

female, deceased (1733)
Dona Juliana Dias da Costa (1658-1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan,...
Baghel Singh Dhaliwal

Baghel Singh Dhaliwal

male
Baron Baghel Singh Dhaliwal (1730? - 1802) was an important military general in turbulent times of Eighteenth century Punjab. He was born in...

Kambaksh

male, deceased (1708)
On the death on 3 March 1707 of the great Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, Kambaksh, his fifth son and governor of Deccan, proclaimed himself Badshah. He...
Jahanara Begum Sahib

Jahanara Begum Sahib

female, deceased (1681)
Shahzadi (Imperial Princess) Jahanara Begum Sahib (April 2 1614-September 16 1681) was the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal.

'Abd Al-Qadir Bada'Uni

male, deceased (1615)
'Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni was an Indo-Persian historian and translator living during the Mughal period in India. He lived in Basavar as a boy studying...
Faizi

Faizi

male, deceased (1595)
Faizi (1547-1595) was the poet laureate of Akbar's Court. He was the brother of Akbar's historian Abul Fazl. He composed beautiful poetry in...
Keladi Chennamma

Keladi Chennamma

female
Keladi Chennamma (17th century) was a queen of Keladi Nayaka dynasty who fought the Mughal Army of Aurangzeb from her base in the kingdom of Keladi...

Bishandas

male
Bishandas was a 17th-century portrait painter at the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir. Jahangir praised him as "unrivalled in the art of...

Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo

male
Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo was a seventeenth-century German adventurer, who wrote about his travels through Persia and India. Born at Mecklenburg...

Akbar Shah I

male
Akbar Shah I was a Mughal emperor in the final decades of the Mughal empire in India.