The merrymaker’s Shahjahanabad

New York’s Park Avenue was briefly home to the gilded age of Muhammad Shah and 12 other Mughal emperors, most of them largely forgotten. “The later Mughal period after Aurangzeb is a blank to most people, including scholars,” says William Dalrymple, author of The Last Mughal. But the Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi) of that time was a world of princes and courtesans

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