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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.
Introduction
The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states known in pre-modern world history. This empire was a dynamic and multifaceted entity in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and Nur Jahan was one of its most fascinating figure. Also known by her original name, Mehrunnisa, Nur Jahan remains the only queen, in the history of subcontinent, whose name was struck on the coin alongside that of the emperor. Nur Jahan ruled not only over the heart but also over the empire of Jahangir, and these were two very difficult territories to kept under control simultaneously. For the heart of Jahangir was as full of contradictions as the kaleidoscopic country that he ruled. Jahangir owes his long years of peaceful rule to Nur Jahan just as much as he owes his ill health and frailty to his habit of alcohol abuse. In this research paper descriptive and analytical methods have being used to bring into light the relevant facts.
Early life
Nur Jahan was born in 1577 A.D., near Qandahar, when her father Mirza Ghiyas Baig, after having some misfortune in Persia, fled with his family from Tehran to India. She was given the name of Mehrunnissa, a name which her future title...