Jahangir

2.  Mirza Nur-ud-din Beig
Mohammad Khan Salim,
known by his imperial
name Jahangir (Persian
name) "conqueror of the
world" (August 31, 1569 –
November 7, 1627), was the
fourth Mughal
Emperor who ruled from
1605 until his death in 1627.

3.  Prince Salim forcefully succeeded
to the throne on Thursday, 21st
Jumadi II, 1014 AH/ November 3,
1605, eight days after his father's
death emerging victorious in the
vicious struggle for succession
between the five prominent and
legitimate sons. Salim ascended to
the throne with the title of Nur-ud-
din Muhammad Jahangir Badshah
Ghazi and thus began his 22-year
reign at the age of 36.

4.  Salim was made a Mansabdar of ten
thousand (Das-Hazari), the highest
military rank of the empire, after the
emperor. He independently
commanded a regiment in the Kabul
campaign of 1581, when he was
barely twelve. His Mansab was
raised to Twelve Thousand, in 1585,
at the time of his betrothal to his
cousin Rajkumari Manbhawati Bai,
daughter of Bhagwant
Das of Amer. Bhagwant Das, was
the son of Raja Bharmal and the
brother of Akbar's Hindu wife and
Salim's mother Mariam uz-Zamani.

5.  Mehr-Un-Nisa or Nur Jahan,
occupies an important place in
the history of Jahangir. She was
the widow of a rebel officer,
Sher Afgan, of Mughals, whose
actual name was Ali Quli Beg
Ist'ajlu. He had earned the title
"Sher Afgan"(Tiger tosser) from
Emperor Akbar after throwing
off a tiger that had leaped to
attack Akbar on the top of an
elephant in a royal hunt at
Bengal and then stabbing the
fallen tiger to death.

6.  Jahangir was well trained in arms and was an expert rider.
But he was not prepared to undergo hardships of battlefield.
He did not participate in any major battle during the reign of
his father and, during his own reign all important battles
were fought either under the command of his son Shah
Jahan or under other talented officers. Jahangir neither tried
to improve the military system which he inherited from his
father nor increased the fighting strength of his army in any
way.

7.  Jahangir was interested in architecture as well. The tomb
of Akbar at Sikandrabad near Agra was constructed by him
and it is one among the beautiful buildings erected by the
Mughal emperors. The mosque in Lahore, which was
constructed in his reign, has been compared with the Jami
Masjid, constructed by Shah Jahan, in Delhi.

8.  He was trying to restore his
health by visiting Kashmir
and Kabul. He went from
Kabul to Kashmir but
returned to Lahore on
account of a severe cold.
 Jahangir died on the way
back from Kashmir near
Sarai Saadabad in 1627. To
preserve his body, the
entrails were removed and
buried in the Baghsar Fort,
Kashmir.