Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Empress of Hindustan

Mehr-un-Nisa, known as the empress Nur Jahan of the Mogul Emperor Jahangir. He gave her the first part of his name (Nur-ud-Din Muhammad) and the first part of his royal name (Jahangir) to his beloved wife, hence the name Nur Jahan. She acted as the first Mogul empress and held much of the authority due to Jahangir's illness and retirement from the court. She was the first woman to have coins minted in her name.
Her tomb lies close to that of her husband's and her brother's in Shahdara, Lahore.




                                    

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