Tells tales of India during the Mughal era, viewed from the contrasting mindsets of European aides to the two leading princes, Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb. Niccalao Manucci and Francois Bernier offer insights into the minds of their respective princes into the same event, give the reader a wide perspective on how history is actually shaped by every day events of its times.
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Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer who lives in Goa, India. Sudhir Kakar’s seventeen books of non-fiction and five of fiction include ‘Inner World’, ‘Culture and Psyche’, ‘Shamans’, ‘Mystics and Doctors’, ‘The Analyst and the Mystic’, ‘The Colors of Violence’ as also the novels ‘The Ascetic of Desire’, ‘Ecstacy’. and ‘Mira and the Mahatma’. His books have been translated into twenty languages around the world.