Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji

by Manu S. Pillai

The only obstacle in the way, however, was one man – a warrior Akbar decried as ‘arrogant’ and ‘evil-disposed’ and whom Jehangir would violently, in his frustration, denounce as ‘black-faced’ and ‘ill-starred’. His name was Malik Ambar.