Abhay:
First of all hats off to you for so beautifully collecting and presenting this information! I loved it!👏👏👏👏👏
Regarding your 4 questions, this is my view:
1. The importance of women in that era: I think from what I see (from you research and from the serial irself etc), the Mughals were more advanced in using women as a whole in political positions and in their daily life and celebrations. The corresponding Hindu kingdoms, they have had a few strong examples of women in power, but I am talking of women as a whole.
The average Mughal women seems to have had more liberty than the average Hindu ruled kingdom women.
But there again we may have to check if women were used as "lucky charms:" or as partners and companions of standing and with brains. Some cultures, for example, used women as "lucky charms" I am told ... which actually denigrates their status, because although they are present everywhere, their value is perceived to be less about their "brains" being valuable and they are used more as figureheads for celebrations, events, pre-war prayers etc.
I would use "brains" as a yaerdstick of judgement. If women were valued for their brains and thinking etc then they were well used. If they were used more for their "beauty" or "luck" etc. then I would think they were ill-used.
2. The miniature paintings of the Mughals definitely pack more detail than the minitaures of the other kigdoms of the West that I have seen so far. Also here the King seems the subject more, whereas in the Western areai miniatures, Krishna and the Gods and their life depictions seems to be more widespread.
3. I am aghast that we have allowed the British to not only take away our treasures but also to distribute them to all and sundry later. This is abominable. Whay can I say?😡😡😡😡😡
4. If I am not mistaken the Mughals descended from the Genghis Khan ancestry, which may be the reason why they had a lot of land-locked kingdom management expertise, but the Navy was a relatively newish thing for them perhaps after conquering vast parts of India especially the east and west coasts. But they must have developed skills because it was later given somewhere that Jodha herself was given control of the ships that carried Haj pilgrims. Is this correct? If Jodha, a lady, were given control of ships, then the ship and seafaring must have been more prevalent for Navy use, because only after Navy requirements would they have built more ships for trade or pilgrimages etc?
Hope my guesses have been more or less accurate?
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