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Dara Shukuh

Name: Dara Shukuh
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Rating: 4.3 (16 reviews)
Author: Rakesh Gupta
ISBN: 9789351282204

by Rakesh Gupta

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Author Rakesh Gupta

Publisher Kalpaz Publications

Synopsis This book deals with the times, life and works of Dara Shukuh as a Sufi scholar and a military man subsumed under Akhlalq working for social cohesion within Akbar's dominant state ideology. His effort at raptures produced biographies, translations of the Upanishads, quatrains, calligraphy, architecture, astronomy and painting album. The book deals with his loves, travails, turbulence and heinous martyrdom owing to his vision and constrains of the times he lived in. This crystal tower was brought to dust owing to treachery, limited vision of his orthodox and ambitious co-brothers. He became a path blazer within the paradigm of the seventeenth century anticipating Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ravindra Nath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawahar Lal Nehru, by challenging orthodoxy. The book contextualises him in the times as part of the opposition between orthodoxy and heterodoxy around the grid of equality of religions and not priority of a religion.

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Language: English
Publisher: Kalpaz Publications
Pages: 236
Binding: HardBack

ISBN: 9789351282204
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Related Category: Biographies