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Young Prince Dara Shikoh, aged 4-5, with his father Shah Jahan by Nanha c.1620. Muhammad Dara Shikoh was born on 11 March 1615 [2] in Ajmer, Rajasthan. [11] He was the first son and third child of Prince Shahib-ud-din Muhammad Khurram and his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal. [12]
The inscription on this Mughal painting identifies it as a portrait of emperor Jahangir and his three sons, but what we see today are the faces of Shah Jahan (r. 1628-57 CE) and his three eldest sons - Dara Shikoh (1615-59 CE), Shah Shuja' (1616-59 CE) and Awrangzeb (1618-1707 CE) - and their maternal grandfather, Asaf Khan, on the right.
Jahangir weighing young Prince Khurram by Manohar Das c.1610-1615. He was born on 5 January 1592 in Lahore, present-day Pakistan, as the ninth child and third son of Prince Salim (later known as 'Jahangir' upon his accession) by his wife, Jagat Gosain, a Rathore Rajput Princess from Marwar.
The Shah Jahan Album, also known as the Kevorkian Album or the Emperor's Album, is a series of Mughal miniatures dating between 1620–1820 from Mughal India. The album was intended for a private audience, likely consisting of the royal family and close friends. [ 1 ]
A shamsa (literally, sun) traditionally opened imperial Mughal albums. Worked in bright colors and several tones of gold, the meticulously designed and painted arabesques are enriched by fantastic flowers, birds, and animals.
1. Babur (1526-1530) 2. Humayun (1508 –1556) Masuma Sultan Begum: Kamran Mirza (1512 –1557) Gulchehra Begum: Askari Mirza (1518 –1557) Hindal Mirza
The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art has one miniature in which Shah Jahan and his court watch two elephants fighting. [5] There were some later illustrated manuscript copies made; for example the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has miniatures from 17th-century versions, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from one of around 1800.
Shah Jahan II. Rafi-ud-Daulah was enthroned as Shah Jahan II. He, too, lived within the fort, as a prisoner of the Sayyid Brothers, and was not allowed independence even in his private life. Inayatullah Kashmiri, who was the maternal uncle of Farrukhsiyar, raised an army for overthrowing the sayyids. But in June, 1719, Inayatullah Khan was ...