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Ruby Lal

Ruby Lal
Ruby Lal is professor of South Asian history at Emory University. She is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World, and Coming of Age in Nineteenth Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness.


Empress Nur Jahan and the Politics of Erasure in Modern India

Ruby Lal on School Textbooks and Maintaining the Soul of a Country
July 5, 2018  By Ruby Lal
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