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Ep 173: The Resonance of Akbar

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Biography of the Emperor of the Morals

I think it is terrible for any historian to use imagination. There havebeen peope who have wrtten dialogues. Imagine dialoguesanaso. So i tried to very consciously avoid all that, because i didn't want the academi to disip rigt. I soy this is perhaps the most acceptable gully that abul fazal would insert. But a refined and chaste man like agbar, it's quite unlikely that he would have used this kind of a language. He would not allow anything that would diminish his reputation. Gales have remained the same, as you see, except they sound much more prosaic, absolutely. And i am sure men abul f

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