Why It Sucks to Be Akbar's Milk Brother (in Mughal India)

Why it sucks to be Akbar's milk brother: your mother raised the Emperor, so you're practically family. Practically. This is the true story, told as your life, of Adham Khan, son of Akbar's nurse Maham Anga, who went from the royal nursery to a terrace in Agra in 1562. Built from the court histories of Akbar's reign, read in translation: Abul Fazl's Akbarnama, Badauni's Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh and the Ain-i-Akbari, with V. A. Smith's Akbar the Great Mogul (1917). Where the sources disagree, the episode says so on screen. Jodha Akbar viewers: the real Adham and Maham are stranger than the serial. CHAPTERS 0:00 The fine print: practically family 0:37 The baby comes first 1:42 Milk brothers 2:39 Your mother's boy 3:20 The coup 4:50 Malwa: keep everything 5:48 The surprise visit 6:42 The other nursery 7:34 Saturday, 16 May 1562 8:28 The terrace 9:21 Your mother 9:49 The afterlife 10:44 File closed, next file SOURCES Abul Fazl, The Akbarnama, tr. H. Beveridge, vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/TheAkbarn... Abul Fazl, The Akbarnama, tr. H. Beveridge, vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/TheAkbarn... Badauni, Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, vol. 2, tr. W. H. Lowe: https://archive.org/details/Muntakhab... Ain-i-Akbari, vol. 1, tr. H. Blochmann: https://archive.org/details/ain-i-akb... V. A. Smith, Akbar the Great Mogul (1917): https://archive.org/details/akbargrea... Y. D. Sharma, Delhi and its Neighbourhood (ASI): https://archive.org/details/DelhiAndI... Ali Nadeem Rezavi on the "petticoat government": https://rezavisblastfromthepast.co.in... Live History India on Maham Anga: https://livehistoryindia.com/story/pe... MUSIC "Hidden Agenda", "Mystery Bazaar", "Hidden Wonders", "Dhaka", "Vadodora", "Jalandhar", "Drums of the Deep" and "Desert City" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... ABOUT Bad Kismet hands you a life you didn't choose, from the Mughal court to the Tudor palace, read to you by Munshi, the tired clerk who assigned it. New files regularly. #MughalHistory #Akbar #BadKismet