Jahangir

The fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 to 1627

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Lived 1569–1627, aged 58India
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    1569–1627
    Aged 58
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Updated 2026-06-09

The fourth Mughal emperor ruled an empire at its height while opium and palace intrigue hollowed him from within. His wife Nur Jahan ran policy from behind the throne; his sons raised armies against him; his memoirs and patronage left a trail of miniatures and monuments that outlasted the instability.

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Born Nur ud-din Muhammad Salim on 31 August 1569, the third and only surviving son of Akbar, he learned Chagatai, Persian, Hindustani, military tactics, and statecraft before leading an army at 26 to crush a revolt in Orchha in 1594. He took the throne as Jahangir on 3 November 1605 after Akbar's death. His reign pushed Mughal authority deeper into the Rajput kingdoms and the Deccan, balanced relations with Safavid Persia and the Ottomans, and opened contact with the English East India Company. He married Mehar-un-Nisa, who became Empress Nur Jahan and wielded considerable political power, whi…

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Jahangir
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A Hindu named Arjun lived in Govindwal on the bank of river Beas in the garb of a saint and in ostentation. From all sides cowboys and idiots became his fast followers.
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, also quoted in : Volume 7: The Mughul Empire [1526-1707]
Jahangir
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I am here led to relate that at the city of Banaras a temple had been erected by Rajah Maun Singh, which cost him the sum of nearly thirty-six laks of five methkally ashrefies.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) , Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, translated into English by Major David Price, Calcutta, 1906. pp. 24-25. , "Decisions
Jahangir
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For towards the close of my father’s reign,...
Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir, written by himself; and translated from a Persian manuscript, by Major David Price (Oriental Translation
Jahangir
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There was a Hindu named Arjan in Gobindwal on the banks of the Beas River.
– Emperor Jahangir's Memoirs, Jahangirnama 27b-28a, (Translator: Wheeler M. Thackston) (Also quoted with different translation in Kishore,
Jahangir
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The sect of the Sewras exists in most of the cities of India, but is especially numerous in Gujarat.
Memoirs of Jahangir, translated by Alexander Rogers, Preface by Henry Beveridge
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