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Humayun

Humayun

Former Mughal EmperorWikipedia

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Sep 1, 2026

Munis D FaruquiGUEST
28:20
I mean, histories on tribal communities and on, you know, and I can go on and on and on about just stories Any graduate student out there, PhD scholar out there, the archives are there.
Munis D FaruquiGUEST
28:34
And it turns out that if you compare the archives for the early Mughal period, Babar and Humayun, to what we have for someone like Aurangzeb, I mean, it's din raat ka fark.
Munis D FaruquiGUEST
28:42
I mean, it's like a thousandfold difference in terms of the amount of information you have.
Munis D FaruquiGUEST
28:48
So You know, the fact that there is so little, you know, serious scholarly work is not a function of the fact that there is material out there to be discovered.
speaker_4NARRATOR
39:01
Why mother, said her family priest to one who appealed to him regarding devotions interrupted thus, the Lord knows that you are a mother, and he makes allowances for these things.
speaker_4NARRATOR
39:11
But though in the Oriental home the wickedness of five years old may find such vent as this, the offhand camaraderie that learns later to dub its parents mater and governor suggests a state little short of savagery, and the daughter who permits herself to precede her father is held guilty of sacrilege.
speaker_4NARRATOR
39:29
The tenderness of parents corresponds to this veneration of children, and we only learn the secret of feelings so deep-rooted when we find that every child is a nursling for its first two years of life.
speaker_4NARRATOR
39:40
Consciousness and even thought are thus awakened long before the closest intimacy is broken, and a dependence that to us in the West is but a vague imagination to the Eastern man or woman is a living memory.
speaker_4NARRATOR
39:51
How completely this may become an ingrained motive we see in the case of that mogul who is remembered simply as the great.
speaker_4NARRATOR
39:57
For Akbar had a foster brother in the Rajput household whither his father Humayun had fled before his birth, and where his first six years of life were passed.
speaker_4NARRATOR
40:05
Akbar's mother dying, the Rajput queen took the babe to nurse with her own son, and brought up the boys in this respect as brothers, though the guest was a Muslim man of Tamerlane's descent and her own the proudest Hindu blood on earth.
speaker_4NARRATOR
40:18
Events swept the children apart in boyhood, and destiny fulfilling itself, he who came of a race of conquerors ascended the throne of Delhi, after many years, as emperor of India.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
4:48
There's another interesting raksha bandhan story.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
4:51
between rani karnavati and emperor humayun in the sixteenth century the kingdom of mewar faced destruction as the sultan of gujarat marched towards chittorgarh outnumbered and desperate to save her people the queen rani karnavati reached beyond political and religious divide.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
5:13
She sent a silk raki to the Mughal emperor Humayun, appealing to him as a brother.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
5:19
Humayun was deeply moved by the sacred pledge and immediately redirected his army southwards.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
5:27
Delayed by distance, Humayun arrived to find Chittorgarh fallen and Karnavati having committed Johar to protect her dignity.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
5:37
Heartbroken, Humayun still honored his vow.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
5:41
He drove out the invaders and returned the throne to Karnavati's young son.
Rashmi ShettyHOST
5:46
Another beautiful story to show the love of a brother to whom the sister sent a Rakhi.
speaker_0NARRATOR
34:45
Why, mother, said her family priest to one who appealed to him regarding devotions interrupted thus, the Lord knows that you are a mother, and he makes allowances for these things.
speaker_0NARRATOR
34:55
But though in the Oriental home the wickedness of five years old may find such vent as this, the offhand camaraderie that learns later to dub its parents mater and governor suggests a state little short of savagery, and the daughter who permits herself to precede her father is held guilty of sacrilege.
speaker_0NARRATOR
35:13
The tenderness of parents corresponds to this veneration of children, and we only learn the secret of feelings so deep-rooted when we find that every child is a nursling for its first two years of life.
speaker_0NARRATOR
35:24
Consciousness and even thought are thus awakened long before the closest intimacy is broken, and a dependence that to us in the West is but a vague imagination, to the Eastern man or woman is a living memory.
speaker_0NARRATOR
35:35
How completely this may become an ingrained motive we see in the case of that mogul who is remembered simply as the great.
speaker_0NARRATOR
35:41
For Akbar had a foster brother in the Rajput household whither his father Humayun had fled before his birth, and where his first six years of life were passed.
speaker_0NARRATOR
35:49
Akbar's mother dying, the Rajput queen took the babe to nurse with her own son, and brought up the boys in this respect as brothers, though the guest was a Muslim man of Tamburlaine's descent and her own the proudest Hindu blood on earth.
speaker_0NARRATOR
36:02
Events swept the children apart in boyhood, and destiny fulfilling itself, he who came of a race of conquerors ascended the throne of Delhi, after many years, as emperor of India.
YoganandNARRATOR
36:46
Why, mother, said her family priest to one who appealed to him regarding devotions interrupted thus, the Lord knows that you are a mother, and he makes allowances for these things.
YoganandNARRATOR
36:56
But though in the Oriental home the wickedness of five years old may find such vent as this, the offhand camaraderie that learns later to dub its parents mater and governor suggests a state little short of savagery, and the daughter who permits herself to precede her father is held guilty of sacrilege.
YoganandNARRATOR
37:14
The tenderness of parents corresponds to this veneration of children, and we only learn the secret of feelings so deep-rooted when we find that every child is a nursling for its first two years of life.
YoganandNARRATOR
37:25
Consciousness and even thought are thus awakened long before the closest intimacy is broken, and a dependence that to us in the West is but a vague imagination, to the Eastern man or woman is a living memory.
YoganandNARRATOR
37:36
How completely this may become an ingrained motive we see in the case of that mogul who is remembered simply as the great.
YoganandNARRATOR
37:42
For Akbar had a foster brother in the Rajput household whither his father Humayun had fled before his birth, and where his first six years of life were passed.
YoganandNARRATOR
37:50
Akbar's mother dying, the Rajput queen took the babe to nurse with her own son, and brought up the boys in this respect as brothers, though the guest was a Muslim of Tamburlaine's descent and her own the proudest Hindu blood on earth.
YoganandNARRATOR
38:03
Events swept the children apart in boyhood, and destiny fulfilling itself, he who came of a race of conquerors ascended the throne of Delhi, after many years, as emperor of India.
speaker_5NARRATOR
37:16
Why mother, said her family priest to one who appealed to him regarding devotions interrupted thus, the Lord knows that you are a mother, and he makes allowances for these things.
speaker_5NARRATOR
37:26
But though in the Oriental home the wickedness of five years old may find such vent as this, the offhand camaraderie that learns later to dub its parents mater and governor suggests a state little short of savagery, and the daughter who permits herself to precede her father is held guilty of sacrilege.
speaker_5NARRATOR
37:44
The tenderness of parents corresponds to this veneration of children, and we only learn the secret of feelings so deep-rooted when we find that every child is a nursling for its first two years of life.
speaker_5NARRATOR
37:55
Consciousness and even thought are thus awakened long before the closest intimacy is broken, and a dependence that to us in the West is but a vague imagination to the Eastern man or woman is a living memory.
speaker_5NARRATOR
38:06
How completely this may become an ingrained motive we see in the case of that mogul who is remembered simply as the great.
speaker_5NARRATOR
38:12
For Akbar had a foster brother in the Rajput household whither his father Humayun had fled before his birth, and where his first six years of life were passed.
speaker_5NARRATOR
38:20
Akbar's mother dying, the Rajput queen took the babe to nurse with her own son, and brought up the boys in this respect as brothers, though the guest was a Musulman of Tamburlaine's descent and her own the proudest Hindu blood on earth.
speaker_5NARRATOR
38:33
Events swept the children apart in boyhood, and destiny fulfilling itself, he who came of a race of conquerors ascended the throne of Delhi, after many years, as emperor of India.

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