New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- In February 1620, somewhere in the vicinity of Daulatabad, the Mughal emperor Jahangir had his imagination captured by a woman. It wasn't the conventional, lusty type of obsession that we associate with kings, however. For, as the emperor diarised later, it was some unusual physical traits in the lady that drew his eye. The girl, we read, had "a full mustache and a good handful of beard. Outwardly," Jahangir added, "she resembled a man." In a flash of sovereign will-but also the distinctly offensive attitude of a nosy uncle-he commanded some women to "take her aside" for an examination. The idea was to determine if she was genuinely female. "Apparently," India's greatest ruler of the time exclaimed-yet again channell...