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Moguls: Women and Warriors, The
Series Title:The Splendors of the Mogul Dynasty
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Media Type:Videocassette
DVD
Release Date:1986
Audience:Higher Education
Secondary Education
Running Time:46 min
Physical Description:1 videocassette (46 min.) col.; 1/2" or DVD
Language:English
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
History
Politics and Government
Subheading:Defenses
History, Early Modern (17th-19th Century)
Rituals and Customs
Social Change
Women
Region:South Asia
Country:India



Abstract:

What was life like for the upper classes of Mogul society, for whom power, wealth, and personal appearance were an obsession? This program appraises the status of empresses, harem favorites, and the Rajput warriors in the Mogul empire over the course of its history. Details of life on the throne, in the boudoir, and in the army’s elite forces illustrate a culture both opulent and narcissistic. Prestige is also reflected by the grandeur of the Red Fort at Agra and the Palace of the Winds, the Amber Fort, and the modernistic, sculpture-like Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory in Jaipur, the Pink City of India. (46 minutes, color)




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