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Setting the record wrong: a Sanskrit vision of Mughal conquests.

In 1589, Padmasāgara wrote the first Sanskrit account of the Mughal rise to power within a short poem titled Jagadgurukāvya (Poem on the Teacher of the World). The work primarily eulogizes the life of a Jain religious leader named Hīravijaya, but Padmasāgara devotes one-third of the text to detailin...

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Published in:South Asian History & Culture Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 373 - 397
Main Author: Truschke, Audrey
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2012
Subjects:
India
Historiography
Collective memory
Sanskrit literature
Mughal Empire
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