Mangoes and Mughals
The Mango obsession: An only legacy that flowed impeccably from one generation to another in the Mughal empire. Have you ever wondered about what made Babur come to India? Surely Daulat Khan Lodi invited Babur as He assured a good portion of the Lodi empire and the war gift but to convince Babur to face Rana Sanga of Mewar necessitated something far unique and that "something unique" was mangoes. A few decades later, his great-grandson Aurangzeb offered mangoes to Shah Abbas of Persia to aid him in his fight for the throne. Later, the King of Balkan also had given Aurangzeb 200 camel loads of dry fruits and mangoes as a peace pact. There was a myth that Humayun while on the run from India to Kabul assured that mangoes were adequate to supply with the help of Babar's courier system. While Akbar built the Lakhi Bagh (near Darbhanga) of 100 thousand mango trees – one of the earliest example of grafting of mangoes, which the Nawab of Rampur tried emulating under the Crown’