Mughal poet and swordsman

In a new book, Rahim emerges from the Mughal court as a young man

Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim 
Courtiers & Poets in Mughal India
Author: TCA Raghavan
Publisher: HarperCollins India Pages: 360 Price: Rs 699

Last month, three ministers of the Rajasthan government proposed to rewrite the history of the Battle of Haldighati to show Maharana Pratap as the winner of the critical conflict with Mughal emperor Akbar. Historians have traditionally agreed that the battle was inconclusive, resulting in a sort of uneasy truce between Akbar’s expansionist ambitions and the Mewari ruler’s struggle to retain his independence.