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A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin. Not enjoying it as much as the first 3.
I bought The Little Book of Hindu Deities for someone based on recommendations on reddit (illustrations are awesome) and have read a few pages. Will probably finish it today.
I want to read about the Mughals and plan to buy The Mughal Throne. Any better recommendations?
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors by Abraham Eraly
Its a really good book, but certainly not the best. Lots of good information and the book is easy to read. The book details, not only Mughal emperors, but culture, family life, legendary stories associated with Mughal figures and key political players during that time.
The only thing that I didn't like about the book is that in many parts, the writer lets his own personal views get in between the content and the reader. Instead of having the reader formulate his own opinions, he sort of dictates how you should feel, especially in the latter parts of the book. Now, a lot of historians do that, but quite subtly, he made no qualms about his own views. At some points, his own opinions sounded almost hypocritical.
However, I think the positives outweigh the negatives, and to date its one of the easiest and enjoyable books I've read on the Mughal Empire. One thing you'll start to appreciate about the Mughals is their impact on Indian society and culture. They may have been outsiders in the beginning, raining down from the mountains of Afghanistan and Central Asia into North India, but their legacy continues to this day. The art and architecture of the Mughals, the jewels and riches, poetry, language, and my favorite, Mughlai cuisine, which is pretty much modern Indian and Pakistani cuisine.
You'll learn about historical figures you never even heard of, but should probably get more recognition like Sher Shah Suri, etc.
The book ends with the reign of Aurangzeb, India's last great emperor. The Mughal Empire would continue for a 150+ years, but it would only be a shadow of its past. It doesn't go into details of how the Mughal Empire fell or who were the emperors after the Aurangzeb.
A lot of other things happened after that, such as the rise of the Maratha Empire, the rise of the Sikh Empire, the short-lived conquest of North India by the Safavid Emperor, Nadir Shah, the Kingdom of Mysore, Nizam of Hyderabad, and of course, the establishment of the British Raj. For all that, you'll have to find another book, probably more specific to those time periods and Empires.