#NurJahan

“In March 1671, a dying man on a riverboat handed the largest empire on earth its most decisive frontier defeat — and for most of a century afterwards, textbooks outside Assam could not find room for his name.”

“You do not beat a giant by matching him; you beat him by choosing the ground where his size is a burden. Lachit refused the open plain, made the Mughals fight on water in small boats, and broke the empire's last invasion of Assam at Saraighat in 1671 — commanding from his sickbed on a war-boat.”