Bipin Shah was born in Rajkot, India, and completed his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University at Baroda, India, and then migrated to the USA for advanced studies.

Beginning slowly, like the troubled courtship of the prince Shah Jehan and Arjumand Banu (later Mumtaz-i-Mahal), the novel gathers sweep and pace as it tells the story of their grand passion against a ...