"The avenues through which women passed into the harem were many. Each Mughal victory brought in female captives. So c…"

"In 1635 AD, Shah Jahan’s soldiers captured some ladies of the royal Bundela family after Jujhar Singh and his sons fa…"

"All the above names are Hindu, and ordinarily these …are Hindus by race, who had been carried off in infancy from var…"

"Two or three eunuchs, or more, who are merely purchased Bengali slaves, but are usually faithful to their master, are…"

"The king in Bijapur has 1,400 women in his seraglio. This must not astonish you, because as in Europe the magnificenc…"

"As I have just said, these eunuchs are shown to the young novice, who is told that these are men and that all others …"

"The condition, then, of these poor ladies is indeed most miserable – no liberty, no hope of getting out or hearing an…"

"Behind the veil, where depth is traced By many a complicated line,— Behind the lattice closely laced With filigree of…"

"When the Spirit of Fragrance is up with the day From his Haram of night-flowers stealing away;"

"And tho’ bright was his Haram,—a living parterre Of the flowers of this planet—tho’ treasures were there, For which S…"