Nur Jahan : Empress of Mughal India - Ellison Banks Findly

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Nur Jahan

Empress of Mughal India

By: Ellison Banks Findly

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Hardcover | 1 January 1993

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420 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.69

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Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history. Born on a caravan traveling from Teheran to India, she became the last (eighteenth) wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir and effectively took control of the government as he bowed to the effects of alcohol and opium. Her reign (1611-1627) marked the highpoint of the Mughal empire, in the course of which she made great contributions to the arts, religion, and the nascent trade with Europe. 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 providing a fascinating picture of life inside the mahal (harem).

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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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