Within hours of Emperor Jahangir’s death, there was pandemonium. ... In a masterstroke, Asaf Khan then hurried to Agra with an army, took the city and caught Shahryar completely unawares.

Let the last verse on this be Shahryar’s: “I am a thirsty ocean / come in the boat of your body / row across me.” Shahryar: A Life in Poetry , by Rakhshanda Jalil, HarperCollins India.