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  Khair-un-Nissa -The white Mughals                                              Khair- un -Nissa       Before the War of Independence in 1857, after which India became part of the British Empire, many British men working for the East India Company, who had come to India to make their fortune, got married to local women and settled down to raise families . the romance between James Achilles Kirkpatrick, the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and his Muslim wife Khair-u-Nissa Begum for whom he converted to Islam .       James Achilles Kirkpatrick was a bit of a hybrid Brit, born at Fort St. George, Madras in 1764 but sent back to Britain where he attended Eton College. To make his name and his fortune, the ambitious young man returned as a “cocky young imperialist intending to conquer Indi...

  Kulbhushan Yadhav   (Indian Navy Officer   Aressted by Pakistan)                                  Kulbhushan Jadhav is an Indian national who is on the death row in Pakistan. He is accused of carrying out espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan at the behest of India's intelligence agency. India has denied the allegations. Pakistan claims the former Indian Navy officer was arrested on March 3, 2016 in Balochistan. The Indian side, however, maintains that he was kidnapped from Iran, where he was running a business in the port city of Chabahar after a “premature retirement” from the Navy .        Kulbhushan Yadav was born on 16 April 1970 and he is a retired Indian national who had served Indian navy between 1987 to 2001. K...

                    Dara Shikoh -The unlucky one                                 Dara Shikoh     Dara Shikoh also known as  Dara Shukoh , (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659)  was the eldest son and  heir-apparent  of the Mughal emperor  Shah Jahan . Muhammad Dara Shukoh was born on 20 March 1615 in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He was the first son and third child of Prince Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram and his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal . The prince was named by his father. ‘Dara’ means owner of wealth or star in Persian while the second part of the prince’s name is commonly spelled in two ways: Shikoh (terror) or Shukoh (majesty or grandeur) .        Dara Shikoh had thirteen siblings of whom six surviv...