Someone who is just lost or forgotten in the lavish Mughal history and genealogy. Someone who is transferred as a prize or collateral of a war.
Then, there is another woman: the enchantress Qara Köz. What does that mean, are women just imaginations in history, or they are imaginations of history? At least some women are. The author makes the all-powerful Akbar imagine a ‘queen Jodha’, a perfect wife, a perfect lover. He narrates a story of three friends, and a forgotten Mughal queen: an enchantress.Īlso Read: 5 controversial books of Salman RushdieĪs there are various themes in the book, I would briefly talk about the women in the book. A story about an unexplored chapter of Mughal history, and the reason that gets him across continents too, the shortlived city, of Fatehpur Sikri. The great Mughal emperor, Akbar, while exploring the limitless conundrum of the ‘I’, is hosting a foreigner.
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