Ruby Lal
Auteur van Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
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Ruby Lal is an acclaimed historian of India and a professor of South Asian History at Emory University. She is the author of Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness and Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World. She divides her time between Atlanta toon meer and Delhi. toon minder
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I think there are some points of query. At one point, she called Jahangir's mother by the name, Jodha Bai when her real name is Harkha Bai. She also mentioned that Nur Jahan was the first woman to issue farmans, whereas other authors mention that Hamdeh Banu Begum also issued farmans.
While she has done an excellent job in explaining her undoubted qualities, she downplays the obvious scheming Nur Jahan did to gain power and to attempt to keep it after Jahangir's death.
However, overall I say this is an excellent book on a worthy Queen about whom we know little.… (meer)