Nûr Jahân
Nûr Jahân , Light of the world - of its true name Mir un-Nisâ , Sun among the women - (Kandahâr, 1577 - 1645) is the girl of Mîrzâ Ghiyâs Beg, Itimâd ud-Daulâ which one can visit the mausoleum with Âgrâ, and of Asmat, originating in Teheran.
Nûr Jahân accompanies his/her father when it goes in India to enter to the service of the emperor moghol Akbar. At the seventeen years age, she marries an Afghan officer Alî Qulî Istalju, called Sher Afkhan, which she has a Ladlî girl, sometimes called Bâhu Begam. Sher Afkhan, appointed governor of Burdwân to the Bengal by Jahângîr, revolts and finds death, in 1607, during one échaufourrée during which it had killed one of the friends of Jahângîr.
The young widow is put at the service of the Harem and it is there that it makes knowledge, in 1611, of Jahângîr which, struck by its beauty and its intelligence and in spite of its thirty-five years, the wife two months later. The rise of Nûr Jahân will involve that of its family, that of her father, who will become a major actor of the government moghol and will receive the title of Itimâd-ud-Daulâ - Pilier of the State - and that of his brother Âsaf Khân, of which the girl Mumtâz Mahal wife in 1612 prince Khurram, the future Shâh Jahân (its mausoleum will be celebrates it Taj Mahal).
Starting from 1622, year of the death of his/her father, Jahângîr having sunk in its Addiction with the Opium and the alcohol, it is it true leading empire assisted by the third wire of her husband, prince Khurram, the future Shâh Jahân. However, when Shahryâr, the brother of Khurram, marries Ladlî, Khurram fearing to lose its advantage for the throne is turned over against it, in 1626, enters in revolt with the support of Mahâbat Khân, an imperial general. Jahângîr, demolishes and made captive by Mahâbat Khân, succeeds in escaping. Nûr Jahân follows it in its escape in the North-West of India where it finds death.
Nûr Jahân then makes crown Shahryâr, but his/her brother Âsaf Khân, who took the party of Khurram, puts an end to their hope. Khurram, assembled on the throne under the name of Shâh Jahân, removes any political responsibility to him and a pension grants to him. It finishes its life like poetess under the pseudonym of Makhfî . It is buried with Lâhore.
To read
- Undue Sundaresan, the Twentieth Wife
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