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Nur Jahan

Empress of Mughal India

By: Ellison Banks Findly

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Hardcover | 25 March 1993

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This is the story of one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history, Nur Jahan. Born on a caravan traveling from Teheran to India, she went on to rule the Mughal empire - in fact if not in name - when she became the eighteenth and last wife of Emperor Jahangir. Nur Jahan grew up among noble families of diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Given in marriage to a Turkish soldier of fortune known as Sher Afgan, she bore one daughter before Afgan was killed in a political quarrel in Bengal. Nur Jahan returned to court as a widowed handmaiden and was noticed four years later by the emperor at a bazaar. She and Jahangir were married in 1611 and, due to his increasing addiction to alcohol and opium, she immediately ascended into the vacuum of power. Quickly forming a ruling clique of her brother, father, and stepson (Shah Jahan), Nur Jahan influenced everything she touched with tremendous creativity and charisma. In addition to her management of affairs at court and the intrigues of financial, martial, and marital alliances, Nur Jahan had decisive influence on religious policy, artistic and architectural development, foreign trade, gardening, and the opening up of Kashmir. Barred from long-term power at Jahangir's death by her brother and stepson, Nur Jahan spent the last two decades of her life in exile with her daughter in Lahore. An intriguing, elegantly written account of Nur Jahan's life and times, this book not only revises the legends that portray her as a power-hungry and malicious woman, but also investigates the paths to power available to women in Islam and Hinduism.

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Prologue: Standing in the Legend	p. 3
The Immigrant Persians	p. 8
Death of Sher Afgan and Marriage to Jahangir	p. 19
Rise of the Junta (1611-1620)	p. 43
"The World Conqueror,"	p. 62
Life in the Women's Palaces	p. 88
The English Embassy	p. 128
Breakup of the Junta (1620-1627)	p. 161
Nur Jahan and Religious Policy	p. 184
Arts and Architecture of Nur Jahan	p. 218
In the Gardens of Eternal Spring	p. 244
The Rebellion of Mahabat Khan	p. 260
Death of Jahangir and Retirement to Lahore	p. 275
Selected Members of Jahangir's Family	p. 288
Selected Members of Nur Jahan's Family	p. 289
Brief Chronology of the Jahangir Era	p. 290
Notes	p. 292
Abbreviations and Selected Annotated Bibliography	p. 371
Index	p. 391
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