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In this fast-moving world, it has become increasingly difficult to fulfil a passion towards history with resources spread across different libraries and hard to get material. The internet has served its purpose of providing a platform to make it easy for the world to expand their knowledge in history. However, it is the ability to become lifelong learners that help us be on top of every challenge and change. We eagerly learn, improve, and at the end of every day, we all succeed.
The Mughal Library is the gateway to finding a wide-range of resources and services put together to support the learning, teaching and research needs of our Community. The library offers quality research services and resources, derived from the historical era influenced by the Mughal Rule.
ABOUT US
Mughal Library
Main Resources & Services
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E-books - Our principal e-book database.
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Research Papers - Collection of well written documents for research purposes and self input work such as Translations, Thesis, etc.
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Maps - Places influenced by the Mughal Rule over the world.
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Images - Collection of Images representing the Mughal History.
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Glossary - Terminology defined and classified based on the Mughal Era.
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News & Events - Get news and learn about the events everyday related to Mughal History.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE MUGHAL LIBRARY?
The Mughal Library's mission and purpose is to develop and maintain a centralized online resource platform, based and derived from the Mughal Era, in supporting the present and future teaching, learning and research needs of people who are looking to find an information hub.
We collect existing high quality open educational reading resources, and exclusive historical resources and books and make them centrally available on web and mobile.
WHO CAN USE THE MUGHAL LIBRARY?
The Mughal Library is aimed at many different types of users and the platform is open for anyone with a passion to learn. Intended users may become a member and access tons of resources.
WHO IS BEHIND THE MUGHAL LIBRARY?
It is group of Royal Mughal descendants who have passion to share knowledge It is being built based on existing quality learning resources provided from a variety of initiatives. The content pool will expand over time through discovery and sharing of more factual content, translations and localizations of historical content.
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Mughal Library Decree
ALAMGIR THE 3rd APPROVES MUGHAL LIBRARY LOGO
The design of the logo reflects the core belief of the Royal Mughal heritage.
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H.M Alamgir The 3rd has approved the official logo of “Mughal Library”, to be used by all media entities in all campaigns, programs and initiatives related to spreading the Mughal heritage and knowledge initiative.
The design of the logo consists of
1. Blue Color 2.Scale Of Justice 3. The Two Lions
1. Blue Color:
The blue color in the logo defines the equality of every person under Mughal Administration.
2. Scale Of Justice:
The top of the Mughal Library logo reflects on the symbol of the famous Mughal scale of justice which defines the importance of justice in Mughal administration as the Mughal Emperors used to hold the court everyday where ordinary cases were decided by the Mughal officials and many were referred to the Emperor for his final decision. The Symbol of the scale of justice was held at a higher standard than the Emperor himself as seen in the picture below:
The Scale of Justice that is located into the Diwan-i-Khas (Hall of Private audience) in the Red fort and other was first built by the Emperor Shah Jahan the Imperial Fort in Delhi was the citadel of his new city Shahjahanabad and later on his descendant followed the same tradition.
The complex has many buildings. The Khas-Mahal (“private house”) consists of three parts. The set of three rooms facing the Diwan-i-Khas is called the Tasbih-Khana (“chamber for telling beads”) and was used for private worship by the emperor. The three rooms behind it are known as Khwabgah (“sleeping chamber”). To its south a long hall with its painted walls and ceiling and a perforated screen on west is known either as Tosh-Khana (“robe chamber”) or Baithak (“sitting room”). There exists a beautiful marble screen at the northern end of these rooms carved with a Scale of Justice suspended over a crescent surrounded with stars and clouds. There is an inscription over the southern arch of the Khwabgah, stating that the building was begun in 1048 A.H. (1639) and completed in 1058 A.H. (1648).
3. The Two Lions:
The Mughals had a great predilection for Indian fauna. Muraqqa (single-page) paintings with animal portraiture developed into a separate genre during the Mughal period. For the Mughals, lions symbolized power and when accompanied by a lamb or calf signified the existence of peace and justice.
The design of the Mughal Library Logo has been approved by Alamgir The 3rd and it reflects on the meaning of equality, and includes the importance of Justice system under Mughal administration as well as symbolizing power of Mughal Empire.