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Romance of Akbar's empire ; The key to Salman Rushdie's new novel, set in Mughal India, is in the sexBOOK OF THE WEEK
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The Enchatress of Florence by Salamn Rushdie (Cape Pounds 18.99)
THE Mughal Empire has an inordinate pull on the Western imagination.
After a succession of assaults on India beginning in the 11th
century by Islamic marauders from as far west as Turkey, a Muslim
regime had established itself over north India by the 1500s; at its
height in the 1700s it controlled all but the southernmost tip of
the subcontinent.
The Mughals have become a byword for opulence and aestheticism,
and Salman R...
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