Ruby Lal

A professor at Emory University and an acclaimed historian of India, Ruby Lal is the author most recently of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, which won the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Biography and was a Finalist in History for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Empress has been lauded by New Yorker, The Guardian, New York Times, BBC, and Indian Express. Lal is also the author of the much?lauded Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (2005) and Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness (2013).