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Jahangir is a principal character in Indu Sundaresan's award-winning historical novel The Twentieth Wife (2002) [105] as well as in its sequel The Feast of Roses (2003). [106] Jahangir is a principal character in Alex Rutherford's novel Ruler of the World (2011) [107] as well as in its sequel The Tainted Throne (2012) [108] of the series Empire ...
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 paid obeisance to his mother by touching her feet. He records these instances with a sense of pride. His reference to his mother was preceded by the epithet 'Hazrat'. Jahangir referred to her as "Hazrat Mariam-uz-Zamani", "Her Majesty" or at times "my exalted mother" out of his love for her in his memoirs. [105]
Jahangir: Rajput: Amber, Mughal Empire: Manavati Bai (Bilqis Makani) [6] Shah Jahan: Rajput: Marwar, Mughal Empire: Arjumand Banu Begum (Mumtaz Mahal) Aurangzeb: Persian: Agra, Mughal Empire: Rabia-ud-Daurani (Dilras Banu Begum) Azam Shah: Safavid Persian: Mughal Empire: Nawab Bai (Rahmat-un-Nissa) [7] Bahadur Shah I: Kashmiri Muslim: Rajauri ...
The mosque was built by Empress Maryam Zamani, an empress of the Mughal Emperor Akbar and the mother of Emperor Jahangir.It was constructed during the early period of Jahangir, in 1023 A.H./1614 A.D., as recorded in a Persian inscription fixed on the facade of the northern gate.
After Sher Afgan's death in 1607, she and her mother were summoned to Agra by Jahangir for their protection and her mother served as lady-in-waiting to Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, the chief wife of the late Emperor Akbar, for almost two years. [5] In 1611, her mother married Emperor Jahangir, and became known as Nur Jahan. [6]
Jahangir became attracted to and married Nur Jahan when she was in her 30s and Jahangir in his 40s. [19] [20] According to Archana Garodia Gupta, the legend of the prior love with Nur Jahan is unlikely because after Nur Jahan's first marriage with Sher Afgan, Jahangir had accompanied him on a campaign to Mewar and also awarded a title on Sher ...
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 ...