Person · wife of Jahangir; the amirship granted early 1622

Nur Jahan

نور جہاں

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The empress to whom Jahangir, in his own memoir, gave her dead father’s whole establishment and office, and ordered that her drums be sounded after his own — power with an instrument, recorded by the man who granted it.

A woman in profile against a dark green ground, in a translucent orange veil, pearl collar and a striped white skirt, holding up a framed bust portrait of a haloed, moustached man in a jewelled turban on a pale grey ground — a court painting of the period, not a likeness.
A woman in profile against a dark green ground, in a translucent orange veil, pearl collar and a striped white skirt, holding up a framed bust portrait of a haloed, moustached man in a jewelled turban on a pale grey ground — a court painting of the period, not a likeness.The Cleveland Museum of Art (artist: unknown, circa 1627) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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In the emperor’s own words

"On the first of the Divine month of Isfandārmuz I gave the establishment and everything belonging to the government and Amirship of I‘timādu-d-daula to Nūr Jahān Begam, and ordered that her drums and orchestra should be sounded after those of the king." The page reports, a few lines on, the death of the prince Khusrau, which Beveridge’s note dates to January 1622.

That is the whole of what this archive has yet read about her from a page, and it is the sentence that matters: an office, an establishment, and the naubat — the audible insignia of rank — sounded in her name. The coins and farmans that popular accounts attach to her are not yet read here and are not asserted.

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