Ruby Lal

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Ruby Lal is an author and professor of history in the Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies at Emory University. [1]

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She has written extensively about the lives of key women in early Islamic societies, especially during the Mughal Empire in South Asia. [2]

Lal has been exposed to the history of the subcontinent at a young age. In an interview with the Christian Science Monitor, she said her mother would tell her stories about Nur Jahan, chief consort of Mughal emperor Jahangir. [3]

Career and Education

Lal read for her D.Phil in Modern History at St Edmund Hall, the University of Oxford, graduating in 2000. [4] [5]

Lal is well known for her research and publication of a book about Nur Jahan in 2018. [6] [7] The biography was reviewed by the New York Times, The Guardian, and Los Angeles Review of Books. [8] [9] [10]

Lal won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for her work about Nur Jahan. [11]

She later wrote a book about Gulbadan Begum, the Mughal princess who traveled to Mecca and Medina. Her work about Gulbadan was covered by outlets like the Wall Street Journal. [12]

Published works

References

  1. ↑ Ward, Beth. "Ruby Lal pulls a South Asian writer from obscurity". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN   1539-7459 . Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  2. ↑ "JHI Circle of Fellows Spotlight—Ruby Lal | Jackman Humanities Institute". www.humanities.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  3. ↑ "Ruby Lal, author of 'Empress,' discusses the amazing life and reign of Nur Jahan". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN   0882-7729 . Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  4. ↑ "Ruby Lal". mesas.emory.edu. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  5. ↑ Lal, Ruby (2005). Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World. Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. Cambridge (GB): Cambridge University Press. pp. xii. ISBN   978-0-521-85022-3.
  6. ↑ "Gulbadan Begum: The epic voyage of a daring Mughal princess". 2024-02-16. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  7. 1 2 "Empress". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  8. ↑ Bajaj, Vikas (2018-08-10). "Mughal Men Ruled South Asia — and One Man Was Ruled by a Woman". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  9. ↑ Zakaria, Rafia (2018-09-05). "Empress by Ruby Lal review – the rise and reign of a self-made Mughal queen". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  10. ↑ "A New Light on a Neglected Ruler: On "Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2018-09-07. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  11. ↑ "Georgia Author of the Year Awards". Georgia Author of the Year Awards. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  12. ↑ Wheeler, Sara. "'Vagabond Princess' Review: Gulbadan's Journey to the West". WSJ. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  13. ↑ "Vagabond Princess". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  14. ↑ Lal, Ruby (2013). Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-107-03024-4.
  15. ↑ "Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World | South Asian history". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
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