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Jahangir minted some particularly
lovely
coins-- including premature ones, during his rebellion late in Akbar's
reign |
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Uniquely among Mughal empresses,
Nur Jahan
was honored by having coins issued in her name |
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Jahangir minted what is perhaps
the largest
coin ever made-- though he had rivals for the achievement |
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He also created a new city: from
1608 onward,
"Jahangirabad" (now DHAKA) became the capital of Mughal Bengal |
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Akbar himself had designed his own
tomb,
but Jahangir thought it insufficiently splendid and redid it (as with
Salim
Chishti's tomb in Fatahpur Sikri) |
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Some early photographs of Akbar's
tomb (at
Sikandra, near Agra) |
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Akbar's tomb: modern visitors'
photos |
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The tomb of Jahangir's Rajput wife
the "Shah
Begam," a princess from Amber, who killed herself in 1605 out of shame
at the rebellion of her son, Prince Khusrau (who's buried there too) |
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Nur Jahan built (1622-28) an
exquisite tomb
in Agra for her own father, Itimad ud-Daulah |
*TOMB
in
LAHORE*
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Jahangir died in Lahore, and was
buried
there in a tomb built by Nur Jahan (whose own nearby tomb is much
simpler) |
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Jahangir and Nur Jahan as
envisioned by
the Dutch engraver Olfert Dapper, 1680's |
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The young Prince Salim (Jahangir)
also later
figured as the lover of the doomed dancing girl Anarkali, in a famous
traditional
romantic tale (and an early classic film) |
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