Bitter Chill of Winter

Tariq Ali: Kashmir, 19 April 2001

... intemperate young man who set the Sunni and the Shia clerics at one another’s throats and before long Akbar sent a large expeditionary force, which took Kashmir in the summer of 1588. In the autumn the Emperor came to see the valley’s famous colours for himself.Habba Khatun’s situation changed dramatically after Akbar had her husband exiled. Unlike ...