This book examines the life, career and writings of Chandar Bhan Brahman, a Mughal state secretary who was also one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan was a high-caste Hindu whose life spanned the reigns of four emperors-Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir-whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of Mughal imperial power, territorial reach and ...
