Akbar of Hindustan
Parvati Sharma, "Akbar of Hindustan"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9391165516 | EPUB | pages: 516 | 0.9 mb
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9391165516 | EPUB | pages: 516 | 0.9 mb
Sometimes, in the dimly lit passages of time, there shines a light so bright it dazzles the ages. Such was the flare, at any rate, that burst across the Mongolian sky one dark night, blazing into Alanqoa’s tent, her astonished mouth, and then her womb. Who knows when Alanqoa lived? Over 2000 years before she saw the light of day, her luckless ancestor Qiyan had seen his entire tribe massacred. Only Qiyan, his cousin and their wives survived. The four found refuge in Argana-qun, an Edenic valley surrounded by high mountains; and here, upon a meadow lush with water and fruit, the tribe rebuilt itself. Eventually, when the valley would hold them no longer, the men and women travelled out, no longer fugitives but an unstoppable force. An iron mountain that blocked their way they melted with bellows. Two millennia after Qiyan’s desperate escape, his descendants – the Qiyat– returned to rule Mongolia.