{"product_id":"dara-shukoh","title":"Dara Shukoh","description":"\u003cp\u003eSultan Muhammad Dara Shukoh (1615 – 1659) was the eldest son and heir apparent to Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. His name in Persian means 'Darius the Magnificent'. A Sufi at heart, Dara Shukoh is known to be an advocate of the heterodox traditions in the Mughal Empire. An erudite scholar, he had studied all faiths, translated fifty-two Upanishads and many other texts from different religions into Persian. He was favoured as a successor by his father and his sister Jahanara Begum, but was defeated by his younger brother Aurangzeb in a bitter struggle for the imperial throne. The course of the history of the Indian subcontinent had Dara prevailed over Aurangzeb, has been a matter of great conjecture among historians. Navin Pant's well-researched and lucid biography of the royal prince is one of the very few books written on his life and it reveals to us some lesser-known facts about Dara Shukoh.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45166261141683,"sku":"9789350296134","price":159.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/91CLPi7ANdL.jpg?v=1764937867","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/dara-shukoh","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}