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Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India (Hardcover)
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Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India (Hardcover)
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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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