Salim son of akbar

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (Louis V. Bell Fund, 1967), www.metmuseum.org Zahir al-Din Muhammad (throne name But there are second acts in Timurid life. From Kabul, which he had occupied in 1504, Babur turned his attention toward India, launching raids into the Punjab region beginning in 1519. In 1526 Babur’s army defeated a much larger force belonging to the Lodi Sultanate of Delhi at the Battle of Panipat and marched on to occupy Delhi. By the time of Babur’s death in 1530, he controlled all of northern India from the Indus to Bengal. The geographical framework for the Mughal Empire was set, although it still lacked the administrative structures to be governed as a single state. Babur is also remembered for his autobiography, the Baburnamah, which gives a cultured and witty account of his adventures and the fluctuations of his fortunes, with observations on nature, society, and politics in the places he visited. • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (Rogers Fund, 1911), www.metmuseum.org Humayun’s son Akbar’s policy was to enlist his defeated opponents as allies by allowing them to retain their privileges and continue governing if they acknowledged him as emperor. This approach, combined with Akbar’s tolerant attitudes toward non-Muslim peoples, ensured a high degree of harmony in the empire, in spite of the great diversity of its peoples and religions. Akbar is also credited with developing the administrative structures that would shape the empire’s r...

Hint: The full name of Salim is Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim. Born on 31 August 1569 and died on 28 October 1627. According to history, Salim was the Akbar's successor and fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. He was the son of great Akbar and mother was Mariam-uz-Zamani. Akbar always called him Shekhu Baba. Complete step by step solution: Prince Salim took over the throne on Thursday, 3 November 1605. Only eight days after his father's death. He remained emperor for a period of 22-year from the age of 36. Salim got the post of Mansabdar of ten thousand (Das-Hazari). It was the highest military rank of the empire (after the emperor) at that time. Only at the age of twelve, he independently commanded a regiment in the Kabul campaign of 1581. Salim was married to Man Bai, on 13 February 1585 and she gave birth to their first son Khusrau Mirza. Later he was married to many girls but her favourite was Jagat Gosain Begum. She is the mother of Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan. Salim later married the beautiful and talented Mehr-un-Nisa (better known as Nur Jahan) on 25 May 1611. In later age, Salim considered his third son Prince Khurram (future Shah Jahan), his favourite and gave his throne. Salim died on the journey from Kashmir to Lahore, near Sarai Saadabad in Bhimber in 1627 due to ill health. Salim became the emperor with the title of Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir Badshah Ghazi whom we know as famous Jahangir. Hence, the correct answer is opt...

There are few tales as tragic as this one, in the annals of the history of the Mughals. Once the favourite of his grandfather, Emperor Akbar, Shahzada Khusrau faced the wrath of a jealous father, an ambitious brother and lived with the knowledge that he may have caused his mother’s death. Finally, he was also done away with. Veteran bureaucrat and former Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities, and former Chief Information Commissioner of India, Wajahat Habibullah, pens this piece on Khusrau’s tragic tale, helped ably by his grandson Rafay. The tale of Mughal Prince Shahzada Khusrau (1587-1622) is not just a tragic tale of a promising young man who had a chance to make history; it is also a tale of how the course of history itself would have changed if he had had a more significant role to play in it. I believe that the die was cast for the ultimate decline of the Empire – which at its pinnacle was the richest the world had ever known until Europe’s Industrial Revolution – the day Khusrau was killed. Shahzada Khusrau Mirza was the eldest son of Salim (later Emperor Jahangir) and was born on 16th August 1587, to Kachhwaha Princess Manbhawati Bai (born Rajkuwari Man Baisa Sahiba), also known as Man Bai. The daughter of Raja Bhagwant Das of Jaipur, she came from one of the most powerful Rajput families of her time. Man Bai was also the grandniece of Akbar’s own wife Harkabai (a Princess of Amer). Prince Khusrau grew up in the Mughal household and was known to be...

The Great Fort, Agra, August 28 1605. Inside the gilded chambers of the Royal Quarters a man lay on his bed, dying. Select queens of the zenanaand senior courtiers were gathered around, as was a younger man of royal countenance in his mid-thirties. It was upon him that the gaze of the sinking man finally rested. He was not to know, even if he was in any position to reflect on it, that the prince had been smuggled into the room in the nick of time. He raised his head painfully and nodded, beckoning the prince forward. With a servant supporting him reverently, the sick man placed the robes and turban of kingship in the younger man's hands in a formal yet curiously tender gesture. Then he fell back on the cushions; his eyes roved around the room one last time before glazing forever. The wails of the women from the anteroom began, marking the end of one of the defining reigns in the annals of Hindustan. For almost half a century, Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar had been master of the largest empire since Asoka. He was the greatest of the Mughals, an empire-builder of genius, whose name shines undimmed through the passage of centuries not just for what he achieved by force of arms, but for the brilliant administrative edifice through which he governed, and for the religious syncretism and tolerance that he brought to polity. Akbar was a man far in advance of his time. So potent was his persona that only those most gifted and possessed of a strong sense of self-worth could stand up to...

“Emperor Akbar was so enamoured of her ravishing beauty that he named her “Anarkali”, meaning “pomegranate blossom”, for her flushing red complexion.” There is a mausoleum in the south of Lahore’s Old City, a site of immense speculation and mystery, and, if rumours of 1611 are to be believed, the only remaining sign of a bitter argument between father and son. The mausoleum is an elegant octagonal white-washed stone building with 8 corner turrets, each topped with a domed kiosk, a masterpiece of solid masonry work of the early Mughal period. Photo by Junaid Hussain In the mausoleum sits an extraordinarily beautiful sarcophagus, a tomb of pure marble and exquisite workmanship, “one of the finest pieces of carving in the world”, according to some 19 th century scholars. This tomb is the final resting place of Anarkali, the protagonist of our great enigma, one half of our 17 th century royal romance riddle, and the point where all the threads start to unravel. On the sarcophagus are etched the 99 names of Allah. Two years, namely Hijra 1008 and 1024, are also inscribed, which correspond to AD 1599-1600 and AD 1615-1616 respectively. On the northern face of the sarcophagus is the following inscription, written in Persian: Ta qayamat shukr goyam kard gar khwish ra Ah! gar man baz beenam rui yar khwish ra “Ah ! If could I behold the face of my beloved once more; I would give thanks unto my God Unto the day of resurrection” Accompanying this eternal profession of love and passion...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (Louis V. Bell Fund, 1967), www.metmuseum.org Zahir al-Din Muhammad (throne name But there are second acts in Timurid life. From Kabul, which he had occupied in 1504, Babur turned his attention toward India, launching raids into the Punjab region beginning in 1519. In 1526 Babur’s army defeated a much larger force belonging to the Lodi Sultanate of Delhi at the Battle of Panipat and marched on to occupy Delhi. By the time of Babur’s death in 1530, he controlled all of northern India from the Indus to Bengal. The geographical framework for the Mughal Empire was set, although it still lacked the administrative structures to be governed as a single state. Babur is also remembered for his autobiography, the Baburnamah, which gives a cultured and witty account of his adventures and the fluctuations of his fortunes, with observations on nature, society, and politics in the places he visited. • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (Rogers Fund, 1911), www.metmuseum.org Humayun’s son Akbar’s policy was to enlist his defeated opponents as allies by allowing them to retain their privileges and continue governing if they acknowledged him as emperor. This approach, combined with Akbar’s tolerant attitudes toward non-Muslim peoples, ensured a high degree of harmony in the empire, in spite of the great diversity of its peoples and religions. Akbar is also credited with developing the administrative structures that would shape the empire’s r...

“Emperor Akbar was so enamoured of her ravishing beauty that he named her “Anarkali”, meaning “pomegranate blossom”, for her flushing red complexion.” There is a mausoleum in the south of Lahore’s Old City, a site of immense speculation and mystery, and, if rumours of 1611 are to be believed, the only remaining sign of a bitter argument between father and son. The mausoleum is an elegant octagonal white-washed stone building with 8 corner turrets, each topped with a domed kiosk, a masterpiece of solid masonry work of the early Mughal period. Photo by Junaid Hussain In the mausoleum sits an extraordinarily beautiful sarcophagus, a tomb of pure marble and exquisite workmanship, “one of the finest pieces of carving in the world”, according to some 19 th century scholars. This tomb is the final resting place of Anarkali, the protagonist of our great enigma, one half of our 17 th century royal romance riddle, and the point where all the threads start to unravel. On the sarcophagus are etched the 99 names of Allah. Two years, namely Hijra 1008 and 1024, are also inscribed, which correspond to AD 1599-1600 and AD 1615-1616 respectively. On the northern face of the sarcophagus is the following inscription, written in Persian: Ta qayamat shukr goyam kard gar khwish ra Ah! gar man baz beenam rui yar khwish ra “Ah ! If could I behold the face of my beloved once more; I would give thanks unto my God Unto the day of resurrection” Accompanying this eternal profession of love and passion...

Hint: The full name of Salim is Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim. Born on 31 August 1569 and died on 28 October 1627. According to history, Salim was the Akbar's successor and fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. He was the son of great Akbar and mother was Mariam-uz-Zamani. Akbar always called him Shekhu Baba. Complete step by step solution: Prince Salim took over the throne on Thursday, 3 November 1605. Only eight days after his father's death. He remained emperor for a period of 22-year from the age of 36. Salim got the post of Mansabdar of ten thousand (Das-Hazari). It was the highest military rank of the empire (after the emperor) at that time. Only at the age of twelve, he independently commanded a regiment in the Kabul campaign of 1581. Salim was married to Man Bai, on 13 February 1585 and she gave birth to their first son Khusrau Mirza. Later he was married to many girls but her favourite was Jagat Gosain Begum. She is the mother of Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan. Salim later married the beautiful and talented Mehr-un-Nisa (better known as Nur Jahan) on 25 May 1611. In later age, Salim considered his third son Prince Khurram (future Shah Jahan), his favourite and gave his throne. Salim died on the journey from Kashmir to Lahore, near Sarai Saadabad in Bhimber in 1627 due to ill health. Salim became the emperor with the title of Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir Badshah Ghazi whom we know as famous Jahangir. Hence, the correct answer is opt...

There are few tales as tragic as this one, in the annals of the history of the Mughals. Once the favourite of his grandfather, Emperor Akbar, Shahzada Khusrau faced the wrath of a jealous father, an ambitious brother and lived with the knowledge that he may have caused his mother’s death. Finally, he was also done away with. Veteran bureaucrat and former Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities, and former Chief Information Commissioner of India, Wajahat Habibullah, pens this piece on Khusrau’s tragic tale, helped ably by his grandson Rafay. The tale of Mughal Prince Shahzada Khusrau (1587-1622) is not just a tragic tale of a promising young man who had a chance to make history; it is also a tale of how the course of history itself would have changed if he had had a more significant role to play in it. I believe that the die was cast for the ultimate decline of the Empire – which at its pinnacle was the richest the world had ever known until Europe’s Industrial Revolution – the day Khusrau was killed. Shahzada Khusrau Mirza was the eldest son of Salim (later Emperor Jahangir) and was born on 16th August 1587, to Kachhwaha Princess Manbhawati Bai (born Rajkuwari Man Baisa Sahiba), also known as Man Bai. The daughter of Raja Bhagwant Das of Jaipur, she came from one of the most powerful Rajput families of her time. Man Bai was also the grandniece of Akbar’s own wife Harkabai (a Princess of Amer). Prince Khusrau grew up in the Mughal household and was known to be...

The Great Fort, Agra, August 28 1605. Inside the gilded chambers of the Royal Quarters a man lay on his bed, dying. Select queens of the zenanaand senior courtiers were gathered around, as was a younger man of royal countenance in his mid-thirties. It was upon him that the gaze of the sinking man finally rested. He was not to know, even if he was in any position to reflect on it, that the prince had been smuggled into the room in the nick of time. He raised his head painfully and nodded, beckoning the prince forward. With a servant supporting him reverently, the sick man placed the robes and turban of kingship in the younger man's hands in a formal yet curiously tender gesture. Then he fell back on the cushions; his eyes roved around the room one last time before glazing forever. The wails of the women from the anteroom began, marking the end of one of the defining reigns in the annals of Hindustan. For almost half a century, Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar had been master of the largest empire since Asoka. He was the greatest of the Mughals, an empire-builder of genius, whose name shines undimmed through the passage of centuries not just for what he achieved by force of arms, but for the brilliant administrative edifice through which he governed, and for the religious syncretism and tolerance that he brought to polity. Akbar was a man far in advance of his time. So potent was his persona that only those most gifted and possessed of a strong sense of self-worth could stand up to...