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On 16 February 1471, Krishnadevaraya was born. When Babur surveyed every ruler on the Indian subcontinent, he named one man the most powerful. The emperor who deployed 700,000 soldiers at Raichur also wrote devotional poetry in four languages.
On 5 January 1592, Shah Jahan was born in Lahore. He would build the most recognisable building on earth, preside over a quarter of global GDP, and spend his final eight years imprisoned in a tower with a direct view of the monument he had raised for his dead wife.