Ruby Lal

Ruby Lal is an author and professor of history in the Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies at Emory University.

She has written extensively about the lives of key women in early Islamic societies, especially during the Mughal Empire in South Asia.

Lal has been exposed to the history of the subcontinent at a young age. In an interview with the ''Christian Science Monitor,'' she said her mother would tell her stories about Nur Jahan, chief consort of Mughal emperor Jahangir. Provided by Wikipedia