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After Jahangir's second birthday, he began the construction of a walled city and imperial palace at the same site. The city came to be known as Fatehpur Sikri, the "City of Victory", after Akbar's victorious Gujarat campaign in 1573. A daughter of Sheikh Salim Chishti was the foster mother of Emperor Jahangir.
Jahangir is a character in the novel Beloved Empress Mumtaz Mahal: A Historical Novel by Nina Consuelo Epton. [111] Jahangir is a principal character in the novel Nurjahan: A historical novel by Jyoti Jafa. [112] Jahangir is a character in the novel Taj, a Story of Mughal India by Timeri Murari. [113]
Shahryar Mirza (born Salaf-ud-Din Muhammad Shahryar; 6 January 1605 – 23 January 1628) was the fifth and youngest son of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.At the end of Jahangir's life and after his death, Shahryar made an attempt to become emperor, planning, supported and conspiracy by his one in influence and all-powerful stepmother Nur Jahan, who was also his mother-in-law.
The courtly mosque architecture of Jahangir's period thus bears the stamp of female patronage. [7] While the inscription over the eastern gateway reads, a prayer of the Empress Mariam-uz-Zamani for her son Jahangir: [1] May the Conqueror of the world, Emperor Nur-ud-Din Muhammad, shine in the world like the sun and moon, oh God!
Mihr-un-nissa Begum [1] (Persian: مهرالنساء بیگم; born c. 1605 [2]), also known as Banu Begum [1] (Persian: بانو بیگم) and Bahu Begum (Persian: بہو بیگم), [1] and better known as Ladli Begum [1] [3] (Persian: لاڈلی بیگم), was the daughter of Empress Nur Jahan and her first husband Sher Afgan of the Mughal Empire.
The emperor was deeply attached to his foster mother, as reflected by the following paragraph in the Jahangir's memoirs: In the month Ẕi-l-qa‘da the mother of Qutbu-d-dīn Khān Koka, who had given me her milk and was as a mother to me or even kinder than my own kind mother ... was committed to the mercy of God. I placed the feet of her ...
Born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the late Queen Mother spent the later years of her life living at Clarence House, where mourners gathered to leave tributes following her death. Tim Graham - Getty Images
Jahangir betrothed Parviz to Jahan Banu on 12 September 1606, and sent 130,000 rupees as a marriage present to her house. The marriage ceremony took place on 29 October 1606 at the palace of his grandmother, Queen mother Mariam-uz-Zamani. The entertainment was arranged at Parviz's house, and all who were present were exalted with all kinds of ...