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Author Findly, Ellison Banks

Title Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India / Ellison Banks Findly
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Summary Nur Jahan was one of the most powerful and influential women in Indian history, and Ellison Findly's biography is an intriguing, elegantly written account of her life and times. It not only revises the legends that portray Nur Jahan as a power-hungry and malicious woman, but also investigates the paths to power available to women in Islam and Hinduism, providing a fascinating picture of life inside the mahal (harem)
Analysis India History, 647-1785
Bangladesh History, 647-1785
Pakistan History, 647-1785
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nūr Jahān, Empress, consort of Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan, -1645.
SUBJECT Nūr Jahān, Empress, consort of Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan, -1645 fast
Subject Empresses -- Mughal Empire -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
Empresses
India -- Mogul Empire
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 142373663X
9781423736639
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9780195360608
9780195074888
0195074882
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9786610442362
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