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Dara Shikoh (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659), [2] [4] also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. [5] Dara was designated with the title Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba ( lit.
After encountering a Dharmic-Gnostic saint, Baba Lal Dayal, Dara Shukoh's interests extended to the local mystical thought of the Vedantic tradition while also befriending Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs, including the seventh Sikh Guru, Guru Har Rai, [3] and the Armenian-born mystic-atheist poet, Sarmad Kashani.
The Partition Museum is a public museum located in the Dara Shukoh Library Building at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmere Gate Campus Old Delhi, India.Much like its counterpart in Amritsar, this museum aims to bring forward the people's history preceding and succeeding the Partition of India in 1947.
Moth Smoke is the debut novel by British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid, published in 2000. [1] It tells the story of Darashikoh Shezad, a banker in Lahore, Pakistan, who loses his job, falls in love with his best friend's wife, and plunges into a life of drugs and crime.
Majma-ul-Bahrain (Persian: مجمع البحرین, "The Confluence of the Two Seas" or "The Mingling of the Two Oceans") is a Sufi text on comparative religion authored by Mughal Shahzada Dara Shukoh as a short treatise in Persian, c. 1655.
Noor Jahan, Kohinoor, Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb 10051 Tales from the Puranas 10052: Stories in Stone--Elephanta, Ellora Caves, The Historic City of Delhi 10053: Champions of Change--Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Rabindranath Tagore 10057: Poet Saints of India--Tukaram, Tyagraja, Narsinh Mehta Special Issue: Mahabharata: 1989
In the 17th century, an attempt to re-establish the Dīn-i Ilāhī was made by Shah Jahan's eldest son, Dara Shikoh, [10] but any prospects of an official revival were halted by his brother, Aurangzeb, who executed him [11] [12] on grounds of apostasy.
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group, book group, and book discussion group. Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.