Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim, Courtiers and Poets in Mughal IndiaBairam Khan and his son, Abdur Rahim Khan i Khanan were soldiers, poets and courtiers whose lives reflected the turbulent times they lived in. In telling their stories, Attendant Lords spans the reigns of four emperors Babur, Humayun, Akbar and Jahangir and covers over a hundred years of Mughal history, a time when these two noblemen were at the very heart of the court's labyrinthine politics. After Humayun's untimely death, Bairam Khan was regent to

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