Lecture for Medium Day 2025 about the Mughal Empire in India

Lecture: Writing the Bejeweled Past: Turning Fact into Fiction in India’s Mughal Empire.

MEDIUM DAY 2025: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th

I’m giving a Mughal Empire talk on Medium Day 2025; essentially a mini writing class. I will pull examples from the novels of my Taj Mahal trilogy and show you how I did my research into 17th Century India, how I created a timeline, and whether I chose to follow it or not. And why not.

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