Ira Mukhoty
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Ira Mukhoty is an Indian author.[1][2][3][4]
She studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge.[1]
Her book Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History (2017, Aleph Books: ISBN 978-9384067496) tells the tales of mythical heroines including Draupadi and Radha, and "six real women who played extraordinary roles but who weren’t written into textbooks as were their male counterparts", including Jahanara Begum, Rani Laxmibai and Hazrat Mahal.[2]
Her second book Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire which was about the disappeared Women of the great Mughals, was published by Aleph Book Company on 25 April 2018.[1][5] In 2020 she published Akbar: The Great Mughal (Aleph Book Company, ISBN 978-9389836042). A reviewer in the Asian Review of Books]] described it as "an ambitious work crafted with great imagination about how the past and the present intersect".[6]
References
- ^ a b c "Ira Mukhoty". Times of India. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ a b Roy, Vaishna (25 March 2017). "Ascent of a woman". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "Ira Mukhoty". Aleph Book Company. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "Heroine-ism". The Asian Age. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ Rose, Jaya Bhattacharji (7 January 2018). "2018: All set to sparkle with new voices". Asian Age.
- ^ Wadhwa, Soni (17 August 2020). ""Akbar: The Great Mughal" by Ira Mukhoty". Retrieved 4 September 2020.
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