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Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War ALEX RUTHERFORD headline www.headline.co.uk Copyright © 2010 Alex Rutherford The right of Alex Rutherford to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by Alex Rutherford in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published as an Ebook by Headline Publishing Group in 2011. Apart from any use permitted under UK copyright law, this publication may only be reproduced, stored, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, with prior permission in writing of the publishers or, in the case of reprographic production, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. All characters in this publication – other than the obvious historical figures – are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library eISBN : 978 0 7553 8326 9 This Ebook produced by Jouve Digitalisation des Informations. HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP An Hachette Livre UK Company 338 Euston Road London NW1 3BH www.headline.co.uk www.hachette.co.uk Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Main Characters Part I - Brotherly Love Chapter 1 - Riding the Tiger Chapter 2 - An Impudent Enemy Chapter 3 - The Spoils of War Chapter 4 - In the Balance Chapter 5 - The Tyranny of the Stars Part II - In the Eye of the Tiger Chapter 6 - The Water-Carrier Chapter 7 - A Promise Kept Chapter 8 - Blood and Dust Chapter 9 - Brothers Chapter 10 - Flight Chapter 11 - Hamida Chapter 12 - Into the Desert Chapter 13 - Demon of the Sands Chapter 14 - Akbar Part III - Farewell the Koh-i-Nur Chapter 15 - Shah Tahmasp Chapter 16 - Kandahar Chapter 17 - Flesh and Blood Chapter 18 - A Visitor in the Night Chapter 19 - Riders in the Snow Chapter 20 - Kabul Part IV - Return of the Moghuls Chapter 21 - A Brother’s Grief Chapter 22 - Kamran Padishah Chapter 23 - Doing Good to the Evil Chapter 24 - Warm Bread Chapter 25 - Shock and Awe Chapter 26 - Victory Chapter 27 - The Stars Smile Down Chapter 28 - Staircase to Heaven Historical Note Additional Notes Alex Rutherford lives in London. Brothers at War is the second novel in the Empire of the Moghul quintet. Main Characters Humayun’s family Babur, Humayun’s father and the first Moghul emperor Maham, Humayun’s mother and Babur’s favourite wife Khanzada, Humayun’s aunt, the sister of Babur Baisanghar, Humayun’s maternal grandfather Kamran, Humayun’s eldest half-brother Askari, Humayun’s middle half-brother and full brother of Kamran Hindal, Humayun’s youngest half-brother Gulbadan, Humayun’s half-sister and full sister of Hindal Hamida, Humayun’s wife Akbar, Humayun’s son Humayun’s inner circle Kasim, Humayun’s vizier Jauhar, Humayun’s attendant and later his comptroller of the household Baba Yasaval, Humayun’s master-of-horse Ahmed Khan, Humayun’s chief scout and later governor of Agra Sharaf, Humayun’s astrologer Zahid Beg, a senior commander Salima, Humayun’s favourite concubine Suleiman Mirza, Humayun’s cousin and general of his cavalry Maham Anga, Akbar’s wet-nurse Adham Khan, Akbar’s milk-brother Nadim Khwaja, one of Humayun’s commanders and Maham Anga’s husband Others Gulrukh, Babur’s wife and mother of Kamran and Askari Dildar, Babur’s wife and mother of Hindal and Gulbadan Nizam, a water-carrier Zainab, Hamida’s waiting woman Sultana, Moghul concubine of Raja Maldeo Wazim Pathan, a retired soldier rewarded by Humayun for his courage Shaikh Ali Akbar, Hindal’s vizier and father of Hamida Darya, son of Nasir, commander of Humayun’s garrison in Kabul Mustapha Ergun, Turkish cavalry officer Hindustan Sultan Bahadur Shah, ruler of Gujarat Tartar Khan, member of the previous ruling dynasty, the Lodi, defeated by Humayun’s father Babur, and a claimant to the throne of Hindustan Sher Shah, an ambitious ruler of humble origins in Bengal Islam Shah, Sher Shah’s son Mirza Husain, Sultan of Sind Raja Maldeo, ruler of Marwar Tariq Khan, ruler of Ferozepur and vassal of Sher Shah Adil Shah, Islam Shah’s brother-in-law and a claimant to the throne of Hindustan Sekunder Shah, cousin of Islam Shah and claimant to the throne of Hindustan Persians Shah Tahmasp Rustum Beg, elderly general and cousin of Shah Tahmasp Bairam Khan, nobleman, military commander and later Humayun’s khan-i-khanan, commander-in-chief Humayun’s ancestors Genghis Khan Timur, known in the west as Tamburlaine from a corruption of Timur- i-Lang (Timur the Lame) Ulugh Beg, Timur’s grandson and a famous astronomer ‘If you wish to be king, put brotherly sentiment aside ... This is no brother! This is Your Majesty’s foe!’ From the Humayunnama by Gulbadan, half-sister of Humayun
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