Role of Nur Jahan: The Mughal Empress of India

Authors

  • Muhammad Zia-ud-Din

Abstract

The history of Nur Jahan is, in part, a story of ambition, power, military skill, and courtly endurance. Nur Jahan can easily be distinguished from any other comparable women of the medieval period like Raziyya Sultana, Rani Durgavati, Chand Bibi, and Mumtaz Mahal. By the exceptional good fortune of her circumstances, she married the most powerful man in India, and lived at a time of great cosmopolitan and international diversity. She had an exceptionally intimate relationship with her husband, Jahangir. As far as her role as Mughal empress is concerned, her personal abilities extended beyond politics and economics, into the areas of art and architecture, literature and religion, travel and gardening and were such that the range of her contributions to Indian culture remains almost unparalleled by any other person even today. Her interest in jewelry and textile design, verses which she wrote with superb wit and imagery, boundlessness and munificence of her charity, all endure as a dynamic and indisputable undercurrent in the Mughal heritage of India.

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Published

2020-02-18