Why the imagined opposition between academic and public historians needs to be questioned
The elephant in the room that no one talks about is who is the ‘public’ and what is ‘history’. – Scroll.in

“What a Mughal Princess Can Teach Us About Feminist History” – TIME

Ruby Lal Pulls a South Asian Writer from Obscurity – ARTS ATL

One thing which is important to note is that I would hesitate to call this a biography of Galbadan and leave it at that. As with much of history, we have lost quite a bit of it and women’s lives were not especially documented on top of that. Very often, this would make me like a book less. However, Lal does an amazing amount of research and fills in many of the historical gaps with other stories or flourishes about the world Gulbadan lived in. Lal does exceptional work and makes this story feel complete even while there are a maddening number of gaps in Gulbadan’s full life. — History Nerds United reviews Vagabond Princess

Emory News Center A whip-smart, adventurous princess animates Ruby Lal’s new biography

Press Reader Desert Prose; A Mughal Princess, Rebel Comes to Life

An Excerpt from The Vagabond Princess, ATLAS OBSCURA is now live at AtlasObscura.com

Magnolias, life and loss in the time of Corona by Ruby Lal (Mint – October 2021)

Hope and Magnolias by Ruby Lal (Atlanta Magazine – Spring 2022)

‘Nur Jahan is the history of India’: Historian Ruby Lal (interview at indianexpress.com)

Empress Nur Jahan and the Politics of Erasure in Modern India (op-ed at lithub.com)

The Mughal queen who became a feminist icon (PDF) (op-ed at BBC | in Tamil (PDF) | in Persian (PDF))

Khabar Magazine Interview (July 2013)

‘Empress’ details history of India’s ‘Queen of Queens’

Q&A: Ruby Lal discusses her new book on Nur Jahan, empress of the Mughal Empire

Empress Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal: Power and Roses

Indian Express Interview