:Jahangir

File:Birth of jahangir.jpg, giving birth to prince Salim in Fatehpur Sikri, painted by Bishandas. |left]]Prince Salim was the third son born to Akbar and Mariam-uz-Zamani in the capital city of Fatehpur Sikri on 31 August 1569.{{cite book |url=http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D11001080%26ct%3D0 |title=The Tūzuk-i-Jahangīrī Or Memoirs Of Jahāngīr |author=Jahangir |translator1=Alexander Rogers |translator2=Henry Beveridge |access-date=19 November 2017 |page=1 |publisher=Royal Asiatic Society |date=1909–1914 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305012916/http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D11001080%26ct%3D0 |archive-date=5 March 2016 }}{{cite book |last1=Hindu Shah |first1=Muhammad Qasim |title=Gulshan-I-Ibrahimi |page=223}} He had two full elder twin brothers, Hassan Mirza and Hussain Mirza, born in 1564, both of whom died in infancy.{{cite book |last=Lal |first=Muni |year=1980 |title=Akbar |url=https://archive.org/details/Akbar/page/n142/mode/1up |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |page=133 |isbn=978-0-7069-1076-6}}{{Cite book |last=Foreign Department Of India |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35314 |title=References In The Press To The Visit Of Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince And Princess Of Wales To India, 1905-06 |date=1905 |page=421}}{{Cite book |last=Havell |first=E. B. (Ernest Binfield) |url=http://archive.org/details/historyofaryanru00have |title=The history of Aryan rule in India from the earliest times to the death of Akbar |date=1918 |publisher=New York, Frederick A. Stokes company |others=The Library of Congress |page=469}}{{Cite book |last=Havell EB |url=http://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.9313 |title=A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood. |date=1912 |publisher=Longmans, Green & Co, London |others=Kerala State Library |page=107}}{{Cite book |last=Schimmel |first=Annemarie |title=The empire of the great Mughals: history, art and culture |date=2004 |others=Corinne Attwood, Burzine K. Waghmar, Francis Robinson |isbn=1-86189-185-7 |location=London |publisher=Reaktion Books |page=35 |oclc=61751123}} Grief-struck, Akbar and Mariam-uz-Zamani, sought the blessings of Salim Chishti, a reputed khawaja (religious leader) who lived at Fatehpur Sikri.{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Della|title=The 9th edition of the concise oxford Dictionary of English|year=1995|volume=7|publisher=Oxford University Press}} Akbar confided in Salim Chisti, who assured him that he would be soon delivered of three sons who would live up to a ripe old age. His parents, Akbar and Mariam Zamani, in hope of having a son born to them even made a pilgrimage to Ajmer Sharif Dargah, barefoot, to pray for a son.{{cite book|last=Ahmad|first=Aziz|title=Studies of Islamic culture in the Indian Environment|year=1964|publisher=Clarendon Press}}{{harvnb|Findly|1993|p=189}}: "Jahangir opened his memoirs with a tribute to the Sufi, calling him 'the fountainhead of most of the saints of India', and in late 1608 he recalled his father's pilgrimage with Mariam-uz-Zamani to Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti's shrine in hopes of sons by making his own pilgrimage to Akbar's tomb in Sikandra."

When Akbar was informed that his chief wife was expecting a child again, an order was passed for the establishment of a royal palace in Fatehpur Sikri (today known as Rang Mahal) near the lodgings of Salim Chishti, where the Empress could enjoy the repose in the vicinity of the saint. Mariam Zamani was shifted to the palace established there and during her pregnancy, Akbar himself used to travel to Sikri and used to spend half of his time in Sikri and another half in Agra.{{cite book|last1=Ahmed|first1=Nizamuddin|title=Tabaqat-i-Akbari|date=1599|page=144}}

During the time of Mariam-uz-Zamani’s pregnancy with Salim, says Jahangir in his memoirs, the baby stopped kicking in the womb abruptly. When the matter was reported to Akbar, who was engaged in hunt of cheetahs at that time, vowed that if the baby resumes kicking, he would never hunt cheetahs on Fridays throughout his life and Jahangir further notes, that Akbar kept his vow throughout his life. Jahangir, too, in reverence for his father's vow, never hunted cheetahs on Friday.{{sfn|Rogers|Beveridge|1909|pp=45–46}} On 31 August 1569, Mariam Zamani gave birth to Salim, and he was named after Hazrat Salim Chisti, in acknowledgement of his father's faith in the efficacy of the holy man's prayer. Akbar, overjoyed with the news of his heir-apparent, ordered a great feast and festivities which were held up to seven days and ordered the release of criminals with great offence. Throughout the empire, largesses were bestowed over common people, and he set himself ready to visit Sikri immediately. However, he was advised by his courtiers to delay his visit to Sikri on account of the astrological belief in Hindustan of a father not seeing the face of his long-awaited son immediately after his birth. He, therefore, delayed his visit and visited Sikri to meet his new born son and wife after forty-one days after his birth.{{Cite book |last=Beveridge |first=H. |title=The Akbarnama Of Abul Fazl Vol. 2 |date=1907 |pages=502–506}}{{Cite book |last=Ahmad Khwajah Nizamuddin |title=The Tabaqat-i-akbari Vol-ii |date=1936 |pages=357–358}}{{Cite book |last=Lowe |first=W. H. |title=Muntakhab - Ut - Tawarikh Vol. 2 |date=1884 |pages=112, 124}} Jahangir's foster mother was the daughter of Salim Chishti, and his foster brother was Qutubuddin Koka, the grandson of Chishti.{{cite book|title = The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī or Memoirs of Jahāngīr, Volume 2|year=1909|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society, London|page=62|editor-first=Alexander|editor-last=Rogers|editor-first2= Henry|editor-last2=Beveridge}}{{cite book |last=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan |date=1999 |title=The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India |translator-last=Thackston |translator-first=Wheeler M. |translator-link=Wheeler Thackston |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=65 |isbn=978-0-19-512718-8 |quote=Qutbuddin Khan Koka's mother passed away. She had given me milk in my mother's stead—indeed, she was kinder than a mother—and I had been raised from infancy in her care. I took one of the legs of her bier on my own shoulder and carried it a bit of the way. I was so grieved and depressed that I lost my appetite for several days and did not change my clothes.}}

Jahangir began his education at the age of five. On this occasion, a big feast was thrown by the Emperor to ceremonially initiate his son into education. His first tutor was Qutubuddin Koka. Many other tutors were appointed to teach Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hindi, Arithmetic, History, Geography, and Sciences. Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, one of the versatile geniuses, was an important tutor of him.{{Cite book |last=Jayapalan |first=N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6L6avTlqJNYC&q=Abdur+khan-i-khana |title=History of India: From 1206 to 1773 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers and Distributors |year=2001 |isbn=978-81-269-3505-5 |volume=2 |page=157}} His maternal uncle, Bhagwant Das the Kachhwaha ruler of Amer, was supposedly one of his tutors on the subject of warfare tactics.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} During this time, Jahangir grew up fluent in Persian and Hindustani, with a "respectable" knowledge of Persianified courtly Chaghatai ("Turki"), the Mughal ancestral language.{{Cite book|last=Asher|first=Catherine B.|title=Architecture of Mughal India|date=1992-09-24|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26728-1|page=99|doi=10.1017/chol9780521267281 }}

On 24 February 1585, Jahangir married the Kachwaha Rajput princess of Amer, Kunwari Manbhawat Deiji, in her native town Amer. A lavish ceremony took place in Amber Fort and the bride's palanquin was carried by Akbar and Salim for some distance in her honor. The gifts given by Mariam-uz-Zamani to the bride and bride-groom were valued at twelve lakh rupees.{{cite book|last=Lal|first=Muni|title=Mughal Glory|publisher=Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd|date=1988|page=87}} She became his favorite wife and soon rose to the level of a consort rather than being a mere wife. Jahangir notes that he was extremely fond of her and designated her as his chief consort in the royal harem in his princely days. Jahangir also records his attachment and affection for her and makes notes of her unwavering devotion towards him.{{sfn|Rogers|Beveridge|1909|p=13}} Jahangir honored her with the title "Shah Begum" after she gave birth to Prince Khusrau Mirza, the eldest son of Jahangir.{{Cite book|last=Emperor of India|first=Jahangir|title=The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|publisher=Washington, D. C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Oxford University Press|year=1999|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/51/mode/1up?q=Shah+begum|isbn=978-0-19-512718-8|page=51|translator-last=Thackston|translator-first=W. M.}}

On 11 January 1586, Jahangir married one of his early favorite wives, a Rathore Rajput princess Kunwari Manawati Deiji, daughter of Mota Raja Udai Singh of the Kingdom of Marwar, at the bride's residence, i.e., Jodhpur{{Cite book |title=Dimensions of Indian Womanhood, Volume 3 |year=1993 |page=338}} After her death, Jahangir honored her with the title of "Bilqis Makani" ({{lit|Lady if Pure Abode}}). She gave birth to two daughters of Salim, both of whom died during childhood and Prince Khurram, the future emperor Shah Jahan, who was Jahangir's successor to the throne.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}} On 26 June, Jahangir married a second Rathore Rajput princess, Kunwari Sujas Deiji, daughter of Raja Rai Singh of Bikaner, an offshoot of Jodhpur. In July, he married Malika Shikar Begum daughter of Abu Sa'id Khan Chagatai. Also in 1586, he married Sahib-i-Jamal Begum daughter of Khwaja Hasan of Herat in Afghanistan a cousin of Zain Khan Koka.

In 1587, he married a Bhati Rajput princess (name not known) entitled Malika Jahan Begum daughter of Rawal Bhim Singh of the Kingdom of Jaisalmer. He also married the daughter of Raja Darya Malbhas.

In October 1590, Jahangir married Zohra Begum daughter of Mirza Sanjar Hazara. He married a third Rathore Rajput princess, Kunwari Karamsi Deiji, daughter of Rao Keshav Das of Merta linked with the house of Marwar.{{Cite book|title=Mertiyo Rathors of Merta, Rajasthan Vol II|page=361}} On 11 January 1592, he married Kanwal Rani daughter of Ali Sher Khan by his wife Gul Khatun. In October 1592, he married a daughter of Sultan Husain Chak of the Kashmir Sultanate. In January/March 1593, he married Nur un-Nisa Begum daughter of a Safavid Persian prince Ibrahim Husain Mirza by his wife Gulrukh Begum a daughter of Kamran Mirza brother of Mughal Emperor Humayun. In September 1593, he married a daughter of Sultan Ali Khan Faruqi of the Khandesh Sultanate. He also married a daughter of Abdullah Khan Baluch of Sind.

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In 1594, Jahangir was dispatched by his father, Akbar, alongside Asaf Khan also known as Mirza Jafar Beg and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak to defeat the renegade Raja Vir Singh Deo Bundela and to capture the city of Orchha which was considered the centre of the revolt. Jahangir arrived with a force of 12,000 after many ferocious encounters and finally subdued the Bundela and ordered Vir Singh Deo to surrender. After tremendous casualties and the start of negotiations between the two, Vir Singh Deo handed over 5000 Bundela infantry and 1000 cavalry and submitted to the command of Jahangir along with taking up imperial services at the court later. The victorious Jahangir, at 26 years of age, ordered the completion of the Jahangir Mahal a famous Mughal citadel in Orchha to commemorate and honour his victory.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

From the very beginning of Jahangir reign as emperor, he witnessed the internal rivalry of the bundela chiefs for control.{{cite journal |author1=Amir Ahmad |title=The Bundela Revolts During the Mughal Period: A Dynastic Affair |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=2005 |volume=66 |page=439 |jstor=44145860 |language=En |issn=2249-1937}} Jahangir appointed his favourite Vir Singh, as the ruler of Orchha by removing his elder brother Raja Ram Shah. This greatly hampered the interest of Ram Shah's house. Thus, Ram Shah along with his family members Bharat Shah, Indrajit, Rao Bhupal, Angad, Prema, and Devi (the wife of the deposed king) raised their arms in rebellion. However, Ram Shah was defeated by his brother Vir Singh with the help of imperial army under Abdullah Khan. Then the deposed Bundela chief escaped and continued to fight the Mughals for two years until he was finally arrested in 1607 and put in prison at Gwalior only later to be given the territory of Chanderi as his patrimony.

On 28 June 1596, he married Khas Mahal Begum daughter of Zain Khan Koka the imperial Subahdar of Kabul and Lahore. This marriage was initially opposed by Akbar as he did not approve of the marriage of cousins to the same man however seeing the melancholy of Salim being refused to marry her, Akbar approved of this union. She became one of his chief consorts after her marriage.

In 1608, he married Saliha Banu Begum, daughter of Qasim Khan a senior member of the Imperial Household. She became one of his chief consorts and was designated the honorary title of "Padshah Begum" and for most of the reign of Jahangir retained this title. After her death, this title was passed to Nur Jahan.

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On 17 June 1608, he married a second Kachwaha Rajput princess, Kunwari Koka Kumari, eldest daughter of Jagat Singh, the deceased heir apparent or "Yuvraj" of Amber and granddaughter of Mirza Raja Man Singh I. This marriage was held at the palace of Jahangir's mother, Mariam-uz-Zamani, in Agra. On 11 January 1610, he accepted the hand of the daughter of Raja Ram Shah Bundela of Orchha in marriage to mark a formal end to the hostilities between them.{{Cite book |last=Emperor of Hindustan |first=Jahangir |url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/104/mode/2up?q=Shahryar |title=The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India |publisher=Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution & Oxford University Press |year=1999 |location=Washington, D. C. & New York |page=104 |isbn=978-0-19-512718-8 |translator-last=Thackston |translator-first=Wheeler Mclntosh}}

At some point, he had also married Kabuli Begum daughter of Mirza Muhammad Hakim son of Emperor Humayun.{{Cite book|last=Nicoll|first=Fergus|title=Shah-Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor|quote=In fact, official records indicate that Khurram's father had at least twelve more wives, including the (unnamed) daughters of Mirza Muhammad Hakim.}} She was also one of the later chief consorts of Jahangir.

Jahangir married Mehr-un-Nisa (better known by her subsequent title of Nur Jahan) on 25 May 1611. She was the widow of a high-ranking Persian nobleman Sher Afgan. Mehr-un-Nisa became his utmost favorite wife after their marriage and was the last of his chief consorts. She was witty, intelligent, and beautiful, which attracted Jahangir to her. Before being awarded the title of Nur Jahan ('Light of the World'), she was called Nur Mahal ('Light of the Palace'). After the death of Saliha Bano Begum in the year 1620, she was designated the title of "Padshah Begum" and held it until the death of Jahangir in 1627. Her abilities are said to range from fashion and jewellery designing, perfumery, hunting to building architectural monuments and more.

The ancestral lineage of Jahangir were traced from the House of Babur

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File:Manohar. Emperor Jahangir Weighs Prince Khurram. Page from Tuzuk-i Jahangiri. 1610-1615, British Museum, London.jpg

(the future Shah Jahan) on a weighing scale.

by Manohar c.1615.]]Jahangir's sons were:

• Khusrau Mirza (16 August 1587 – 26 January 1622) — with Shah Begum, daughter of Raja Bhagwant Das of Amber.
• Parviz Mirza (31 October 1589 – 28 October 1626) — with Sahib Jamal Begum, daughter of Khwaja Hasan.
• Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666) — with Bilqis Makani, daughter of Raja Udai Singh of Marwar.
• Jahandar Mirza (born {{Circa|1605}}) — with a concubine.
• Shahryar Mirza (16 January 1605 – 23 January 1628) — with a concubine.

Jahangir's daughters were:

• Sultan-un-nissa Begum (25 April 1586 – 5 September 1646) — with Shah Begum, daughter of Raja Bhagwant Das of Amber.{{Cite book|title=Akbarnama Of Abul Fazl; Volume III|page=746}}
• Iffat Banu Begum (born 6 April 1589) — with Malika Shikar Begum, daughter of Said Khan Jagatai Of Kashghar.{{Cite book|title=Akbarnama Of Abul Fazl; Volume III|page=816}}
• Daulat-un-nissa Begum (born 24 December 1589) — with daughter of Raja Darya Malbhas.{{Cite book|last=Fazl|first=Abul|title=Akbarnama|publisher=ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL|volume=III|page=866}}
• Bahar Banu Begum (9 October 1590 – 8 September 1653) — with Karamsi Baighter of Keshav Das of Merta.{{Cite book|title=Akbarnama Of Abul Fazl; Volume III|page=880}}
• Begum Sultan Begum (9 October 1590 - September 1591) — with Bilqis Makani, daughter of Raja Udai Singh of Marwar.
• A daughter (born 21 January 1591) — with Sahib Jamal Begum, daughter of Khwaja Hasan.{{Cite book|last=Fazl|first=Abul|title=Akbarnama Vol. III|page=883|quote=On this day also Sultan Parviz had a sister born.}}
• A daughter (born 14 October 1594) — with Sahib Jamal Begum, daughter of Khwaja Hasan.{{Cite book|last=Fazl|first=Abul|title=Akbarnama Vol. III|quote=On the 21st, after the passing of 8 hours and 28 minutes, a sister to Sulān Parvīz was born. It is the rule that H.M. promptly gives names to the children and grandchildren. Though the inner servants expressed a wish that he would do this, he did not accept the proposition. Suddenly that newly-born one descended into non-existence, and H.M.'s knowledge of hidden things was anew displayed!}}
• A daughter (born January 1595) — with daughter of Abdullah Khan Baluch.{{Cite book|title=Akbarnama Of Abul Fazl; Volume III|page=1015}}
• A daughter (born 28 August 1595) — with Nur-un-Nissa Begum, daughter of Ibrahim Husain Mirza.{{Cite book|title=Akbarnama Of Abul Fazl; Volume III|page=1031}}
• Luzzat-un-Nissa Begum (23 September 1597 - 1603) — with Bilqis Makani, daughter of Raja Udai Singh of Marwar.{{Cite book|title=Akbarnama Of Abul Fazl; Volume III|page=1094}}

File:8 Abu'l Hasan. Celebrations at the accession of Jahangir. Jahangirnama. St. Petersburg Album. ca. 1615-18, Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg..jpg was away from the capital on an expedition, Salim organised a coup and declared himself emperor. Akbar had to hastily return to Agra and restore order.|upright]]

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He succeeded the throne on Thursday, 3 November 1605, eight days after his father's death. Salim ascended the throne with the imperial grand title of Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir Badshah Ghazi and thus began his 22-year reign at the age of 36.

Soon after, Jahangir had to fend off his son Khusrau Mirza when he attempted to claim the throne based on Akbar's will. Khusrau Mirza was defeated in the year 1606 with the support of the Barha and Bukhari sāda and confined in the fort of Agra.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Tg-AAAAMAAJ&q=indian+afghans+barha |title=History of the Afghans in India, A.D. 1545-1631 |date=4 October 1961 |publisher=Pakistan Publishing House |page=261 |access-date=4 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103034411/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Tg-AAAAMAAJ&q=indian+afghans+barha |archive-date=3 November 2023 |url-status=live}} Jahangir was found to be more militarily capable, and he crushed the rebellion in a week. Jahangir had all the young aristocrat supporters of Khusrau tortured, impaled and made him watch them in agony as a warning. After a rebellion the second time, as punishment, Khusrau Mirza was handed over to his younger brother and was partially blinded.

From the time of his marriage with Mehr-un-Nissa, later known as Empress Nur Jahan, Jahangir left the reins of government in her hands and appointed her family and relatives to high positions. Nur Jahan had complete freedom of speech near Jahangir without any reprimand. On the contrary, she could nag and fight with him on the smallest issue. Thus, her unprecedented freedom of action to control the state caused the displeasure of both his courtiers and foreigners.{{Cite web |title=The Internationalization of Portuguese Historiography |url=https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue6/html/flores_main.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514034521/http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue6/html/flores_main.html |archive-date=14 May 2017 |access-date=23 October 2017 |website=brown.edu}}

In 1608, Jahangir posted Islam Khan I to subdue the rebel Musa Khan, the Masnad-e-Ala{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IDBdEAAAQBAJ&dq=isa+khan+dynasty+bengal&pg=PA12 |title= Bangladesh and Pakistan Flirting with Failure in South Asia |date= 2022 |author= Pawan singh |publisher= Gaurav Book Center |page= 21 |access-date= 19 March 2023 |archive-date= 4 April 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230404123156/https://books.google.com/books?id=IDBdEAAAQBAJ&dq=isa+khan+dynasty+bengal&pg=PA12 }} of the Baro-Bhuyan confederacy in Bengal,{{cite Banglapedia|article=Musa Khan|author=Muazzam Hussain Khan}} who was able to imprison him.{{cite book|page=12|title=400 years of Dhaka|first=M A Hannan|last=Feroz|publisher=Ittyadi|year=2009}}{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |page=165}}

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In 1613, Jahangir issued a sanguinary order for the extirpation of the race of the Kolis who were notorious robbers and plunders living in the most inaccessible parts of the province of Gujarat. A large number of the Koli chiefs were slaughtered and the rest hunted to their mountains and deserts. 169 heads of such Koli chiefs killed in battle by Nur-ul-llah Ibrahim, commander of 'Bollodo'.{{Cite book |last=Hanif |first=N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CXH4RHYwkEsC |title=Islamic Concept of Crime and Justice: Political justice and crime |publisher=Sarup & Sons |year=1999 |isbn=978-81-7625-063-4 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=73–74 |language=en |access-date=10 October 2022 |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128111814/https://books.google.com/books?id=CXH4RHYwkEsC |url-status=live}}{{Cite book |last=Herbert |first=Sir Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46NMAQAAMAAJ |title=Sir Thomas Herbert, Bart: Travels in Africa, Persia, and Asia the Great: Some Years Travels Into Africa and Asia the Great, Especially Describing the Famous Empires of Persia and Hindustan, as Also Divers Other Kingdoms in the Oriental Indies, 1627-30, the 1677 Version |publisher=ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-86698-475-1 |location=New Delhi, India |page=180 |language=en}} In the same year later,{{cite book |author=Sekhara Bandyopadhyaya |year=2004 |title=From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India |publisher=Orient Blackswan |page=37 |isbn=978-81-250-2596-2}} the Portuguese seized the Mughal ship Rahimi, which had set out from Surat on its way with a large cargo of 100,000 rupees and Pilgrims, who were on their way to Mecca and Medina to attend the annual Hajj. The Rahimi was owned by Mariam-uz-Zamani, mother of Jahangir and Akbar's favourite consort. She was bestowed the title of 'Mallika-e-Hindustan' (Queen of Hindustan) by Akbar and was subsequently referred to as same during Jahangir's reign. The Rahimi was the largest Indian ship sailing in the Red Sea and was known to the Europeans as the "great pilgrimage ship". When the Portuguese officially refused to return the ship and the passengers, the outcry at the Mughal court was unusually severe. The outrage was compounded by the fact that the owner and the patron of the ship was none other than the revered mother of the current emperor. Jahangir himself was outraged and ordered the seizure of the Portuguese town Daman. He ordered the apprehension of all Portuguese within the Mughal Empire; he further confiscated churches that belonged to the Jesuits. This episode is considered to be an example of the struggle for wealth that would later ensue and lead to colonisation of the Indian sub-continent. Jahangir then gathered his forces under the command of Ali Kuli Khan and fought Raja Lakshmi Narayan Bhup of the Kingdom of Koch Bihar in the far eastern province of Bengal. Raja Lakshmi Narayan then accepted the Mughals as his suzerains and was given the title Nazir, later establishing a garrison at Atharokotha. Jahangir was responsible for ending a century-long struggle with the Sisodia Rajput house of Mewar. The campaign against them was pushed so extensively that they were made to submit with great loss of life and property.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

In 1614, The East India Company persuaded King James I to send a British ambassador to the Mughal court, Thomas Roe. Thomas Roe describes how petitioners could use the chain of justice to attract the emperor's attention if his decision was not to their satisfaction during Darshana. The Darshana tradition was adopted by the Mughal Emperors from Hindu religio-political rituals.{{Cite web |title=Emperor Jahangir at the Jharoka window, AKM136, The Aga Khan Museum |url=http://agakhanmuseum.org/collection/artifact/jahangir-jharoka-window-agra-fort-folio-jahangirnameh-memoirs-jahangir-akm136 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331161705/https://agakhanmuseum.org/collection/artifact/jahangir-jharoka-window-agra-fort-folio-jahangirnameh-memoirs-jahangir-akm136 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=Aga Khan Museum |language=en}} As a royal envoy to the Agra court of Jahangir.{{cite book |last1=Dalrymple |first1=Willian |title=The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company |date=2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-4088-6437-1 |edition=1 |location=London |pages=15–19}} Roe resided at Agra for three years, until 1619. At the Mughal court, Roe allegedly became a favourite of Jahangir and may have been his drinking partner; he arrived with gifts of "many crates of red wine"{{rp|16}} and explained to him what beer was and how it was made.{{rp|17}} The immediate result of the mission was to obtain permission and protection for an East India Company factory at Surat. While no major trading privileges were conceded by Jahangir, "Roe's mission was the beginning of a Mughal-Company relationship that would develop into something approaching a partnership and see the "EIC" gradually drawn into the Mughal nexus".{{rp|19}} While Roe's detailed journals{{cite book |last1=Roe |first1=Sir Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma03roegoog |title=The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mughal |date=1899 |publisher=Humphrey Milford |editor1-last=Foster |editor1-first=W |edition=Rev. 1926 |location=London}} are a valuable source of information on Jahangir's reign, the Emperor did not return the favour, with no mention of Roe in his voluminous diaries.{{rp|19}}

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In 1615, Jahangir captured Kangra Fort, whose Katoch rulers came under Mughal vassalship during the reign of Akbar. Consequently, a siege was laid and the fort was taken in 1620, which "resulted in the submission of the Raja of Chamba who was the greatest of all the rajas in the region." The district of Kishtwar, in the vast province of Kashmir, was also conquered the same year.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

In October 1616, Jahangir sent Prince Khurram to fight against the combined forces of three rebel kingdoms of Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda.{{Cite book |last=Lal |first=Ruby |title=Empress - The astonishing reign of Nur Jahan |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-393-23934-8 |edition=1st |location=United States of America |pages=126, 191}} Jahangir considered his third son, Khurram (regnal name Shah Jahan) as his favourite son.

In 1621 of February, However, when Nur Jahan married her daughter, Mihr-un-nissa Begum, to Jahangir's youngest son, Shahryar Mirza, Khurram suspected that his stepmother was trying to maneuver Shahryar as the successor to Jahangir. Using the rugged terrain of Deccan to his advantage, Khurram launched a rebellion against Jahangir in 1622. This precipitated a political crisis in Jahangir's court. Khurram murdered his blind older brother, Khusrau Mirza, to smooth his path to the throne.{{cite book |author=Ellison Banks Findly |url={{Google books|ugxFjVDk3I8C|page=PA171|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |title=Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India |date=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-536060-8 |pages=170–172}} Simultaneously, the Safavid emperor Abbas the Great attacked Kandahar in the winter of 1622. Since it was both a commercial center at the border of the Mughal Empire and the burial place of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, Jahangir dispatched Prince Shahryar to repel the Safavids. However, due to Shahryar's inexperience and harsh Afghan winter, Kandahar fell to the Safavids.

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In 1623, Emperor Jahangir sent his tehsildar, Khan Alam, to Safavid Persia, accompanied by 800 sepoys, scribes and scholars, along with ten howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, to negotiate peace with Emperor Abbas after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Khan Alam soon returned with valuable gifts and groups of masters of the hunt ({{langx|fa|میر شکار|mir shikār}}) from both Safavid Iran and the Khanates of Central Asia.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} On March, Jahangir ordered Mahabat Khan, one of Jahangir's most loyal high generals, to crush Khurram's rebellion in the Deccan. After a series of victories by Mahabat Khan over Khurram, the civil war finally ended in October 1625.

In 1626, Jahangir began to contemplate an alliance between the Ottoman Empire, the Mughals, and the Khanate of Bukhara of the Uzbeks against the Safavids, who had defeated the Mughals at Kandahar.{{cite book |author1=Naimur Rahman Farooqi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uB1uAAAAMAAJ |title=Mughal-Ottoman Relations A Study of Political & Diplomatic Relations Between Mughal India and the Ottoman Empire, 1556-1748 |date=1989 |publisher=Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli |page=38 |language=En |access-date=9 March 2024}} He even wrote a letter to the Ottoman Sultan, Murad IV. Jahangir's ambition did not materialise due to his death in 1627.

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A lifelong user of opium and wine, Jahangir was frequently ill in the 1620s. Jahangir was trying to restore his health by visiting Kashmir and Kabul. He went from Kabul to Kashmir but decided to return to Lahore because of a severe cold.

In 1627 on 29 October, during the journey from Kashmir to Lahore, Jahangir died near Bhimber.{{cite book |last1=Allan |first1=J. |last2=Haig |first2=Sir T. Wolsely |last3=Dodwell |first3=H. H. |editor-last=Dodwell |editor-first=H. H. |editor-link=H. H. Dodwell |year=1934 |title=The Cambridge Shorter History of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA398 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=398}} To embalm and preserve his body, the entrails were removed; these were buried inside Baghsar Fort near Bhimber in Kashmir. The body was then conveyed by palanquin to Lahore and was buried in Shahdara Bagh, a suburb of that city. His son, Shah Jahan, commissioned his tomb and is today a popular tourist attraction site.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Jahangir's death launched a minor succession crisis. While Nur Jahan desired her son-in-law, Shahryar Mirza, to take the throne, her brother Abu'l-Hassan Asaf Khan was corresponding with his son-in-law, Prince Khurram to take over the throne. To counter Nur Jahan, Abu'l Hassan put Dawar Bakhsh as the puppet ruler and confined Nur Jahan in the Shahdara. Upon his arrival in Agra in February 1628, Prince Khurram executed both Shahryar and Dawar and took the regnal name Shah Jahan (Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram).{{Cite book |last=Lal |first=Ruby |title=Empress - The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-393-23934-8 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=214–216}}

Jahangir was famous for his "Chain of Justice". In contemporary paintings, it has been shown as a golden chain with golden bells. In his memoir Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, he wrote that he ordered the creation of this chain for his subjects to appeal to the emperor if they were denied justice at any level.

Jahangir also took interest in public health and medicine. After his accession, he passed twelve orders, of which at least two were related to this area. The fifth order forbade the manufacturing and sale of rice spirit and any kind of intoxicating drugs, and the tenth order was instrumental in laying the foundation of free hospitals and appointment of physicians in all the cities of his empire.{{cite journal |vauthors=Chattopadhyay A |date=1995 |title=Jahangir's interest in public health and medicine |journal=Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |volume=25 |issue=1–2 |pages=170–182 |doi= |pmid=11618835}}

File:Jahangir with sufi.jpg by Bichitr dated from the early 1620s depicting the Mughal emperor Jahangir preferring an audience with Sufi saint to his contemporaries, the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I and the King of England James I (d. 1625); the picture is inscribed in Persian: "Though outwardly shahs stand before him, he fixes his gazes on dervishes."]]

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According to M. Athar Ali, Jahangir generally continued the religious policy of Akbar and had a major interest in pantheism.{{Cite journal |last=Ali |first=M. Athar |year=1990 |title=The Religious World of Jahangir |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=51 |pages=295–296}}

At the start of his regime, many staunch Sunnis were hopeful, because he seemed less tolerant of other faiths than his father had been. At the time of his accession and the elimination of Abu'l Fazl, his father's chief minister and the architect of his eclectic religious stance, a powerful group of orthodox noblemen had gained increased power in the Mughal court. This included nobles especially like Shaykh Farid, Jahangir's trusted Mir Bakhshi, who held firmly the citadel of orthodoxy in Muslim India.{{cite book |author=Muhammad Tariq Awan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OgpuAAAAMAAJ&q=highest%20post%20in%20mughal%20government%20is%20mir%20bakhshi |title=History of India and Pakistan: pt. 1. Great Mughals |date=1994 |publisher=Ferozsons |isbn=978-969-0-10034-4 |page=342 |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405042902/https://books.google.com/books?id=OgpuAAAAMAAJ&q=highest%20post%20in%20mughal%20government%20is%20mir%20bakhshi |archive-date=5 April 2023 |url-status=live}} Another influence for Jahangir changed his religious policies was due to the action of Ahmad Sirhindi, who routinely attend the court debates to counteract some religious beliefs and doctrines which prevalent in the court.{{cite journal |author1=Hasan Murtaza |title=7. Letters of Sheikh Ahmad. (A New Source of Historical Study) [1563—1624 A. D.] |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1946 |volume=9 |pages=273–281 |jstor=44137073 |language=En |quote=n : It v as written from the Imperial Camp. It shows that the Imam was held in esteem in the Imperial Court, used to attend it daily and by his daily debates there used to counter-act the beliefs and doctrines pre- valent in court. /It almost gives a list of the beliefs and doctrines which were discussed, criticised and ridiculed in the Court. T}} In the process, it is recorded from these correspondence which compiled in 1617, that Farid Murtaza Khan took Ahmad Sirhindi advices regarding this matter.{{cite journal |author1=Irfan Habib |title=The Political Role of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi and Shah Waliullah |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1960 |volume=23 |pages=209–223 |jstor=44304065 |language=en |issn=2249-1937 |quote=There is no real proof ... that Shaikh Farid ever took Shaikh Ahmad's advice}}{{failed verification|date=March 2024}} His efforts influenced Abul Fazl, protegee of emperor Akbar, to support Ahmad Sirhindi in effort to convince Jahangir to reverse the policies of Akbar of tolerating Hindus in Mughal court.{{cite book |author1=John F. Richards |title=The Mughal Empire Part 1, Volume 5 |date=1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-56603-2 |pages=98–100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHyVh29gy4QC |access-date=4 December 2023 |language=En |format=Paperback}} Yohanan Friedmann has noted that according to many modern historians and thinkers, the puritanical though of Ahmad Sirhindi has inspired the religious orthodoxy of emperor Aurangzeb.{{cite book |author1=Gerhard Bowering |author2=Mahan Mirza |author3=Patricia Crone |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought |date=2013 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-13484-0 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q1I0pcrFFSUC |access-date=6 March 2024 |language=En |format=Hardcover}}{{cite journal |last1=Malik |first1=Adnan |last2=Zubair |first2=Muhammad |last3=Parveen |first3=Uzman |title=Effects of social reforms of shaykh Ahmad sirhindi (1564-1624) on muslim society in the sub continent |journal=Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities |date=2016 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=155–164 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/MALEOS-28 |access-date=9 March 2024 |publisher=University of Karachi |doi=10.46568/jssh.v55i2.70 |doi-access=free}}{{rp|pp=162–163}} This was noted by how Ahmad Sirhindi manage to influence the successor of emperor Akbar, starting from Jahangir, into reversing Akbar policies such as lifting marriage age limits, mosque abolishments, and Hijra methodology revival which abandoned by his father.{{sfn|Malik|Zubair|Parveen|2016|pp=158-161}} It is noted by historians that this influence has been significantly recorded during the conquest of Kangra under Jahangir, that at the presence of Ahmad Sirhindi who observed the campaign, the Mughal forces had the Idols broken, a cow slaughtered, Khutbah sermon read, and other Islamic rituals performed.{{sfn|Malik|Zubair|Parveen|2016|pp=159-161}} Further mark of Jahangir departure from Akbar secular policy were recorded Terry, a traveller, who came and observed India region between 1616 and 1619, where he found the mosques full of worshippers, the exaltation of Quran and Hadith practical teaching, and the complete observance of Fasting during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr celebrations.{{sfn|Malik|Zubair|Parveen|2016|pp=159-161}}

Jahangir issued bans on cowslaugher and animal slaughter on certain days of the week in continuance of his father's policy. According to the Dabistan-i Mazahib he appointed Srikant of Kashmir to be qazi of the Hindus so that they would have their own judicial representative. He also continued his father's policy of patronizing Brahmins and temples. Notably he issued several grants to the Chaitanya sect for their temples in Vrindavan, but also made negative comments about their temples. He, like his father, dissaproved of reincarnation and idol worship and ordered the boar image to be removed from Rana Shankar's temple at Pushkar.{{Sfn|Ali|1990|pp=294-295}}

Most notorious was the execution of the Sikh Guru Arjan Dev on Jahangir's orders. His lands were confiscated and his sons imprisoned as Jahangir suspected him of helping Khusrau's rebellion.{{cite book |last=Wynbrandt |first=James |year=2009 |title=A Brief History of Pakistan |url={{Google books|xQGwgJnCPZgC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |publisher=Facts on File |pages=83–84 |isbn=978-0-8160-6184-6}} It is unclear whether Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjan as a Hindu, who had "captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners... for three or four generations (of spiritual successors) they had kept this shop warm." The trigger for Guru Arjan's execution was his support for Jahangir's rebel son Khusrau Mirza, yet it is clear from Jahangir's own memoirs that he disliked Guru Arjan before then: "many times it occurred to me to put a stop to this vain affair or bring him into the assembly of the people of Islam."Goel, The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India, 59. Guru Arjan's successor Guru Hargobind was imprisoned for sometime but released soon. He developed friendly relations with Jahangir and accompanied him on his journey to Kashmir just before the latter's death.{{Cite book |last=Chandra |first=Satish |title=History of Medieval India(800-1700) |publisher=Orient Blackswan |year=2015 |isbn=978-93-5287-457-6 |language=en}}

According to Jahangir's memoirs, he issued a farman banning Jain seorahs (monks) due to alleged scandalous behavior. However, the ban was quickly rescinded but Jahangir neglected to mention that in his memoirs. There is a wide variety of evidence that Jahangir had good relations with Jains and Jain sources themselves extol him. According to Ali, Jahangir wrote his memoirs with his intended audience of Persian-speaking Muslims in mind and sought to portray himself as an anti-idolatry sultan and thus "modified" facts.{{Sfn|Ali|1990|pp=292-293}} Jahangir's memoirs also omit the fact that three of his nephews at one point converted to Christianity with his permission, although they would later reverse their decision.{{Sfn|Ali|1990|pp=293-294}}

He issued 'Jahangiri coins' which had his own portrait. He even issued the zodiac series of gold and silver coins which had images of zodiac symbols alongside the radiating sun in the background, due to his faith in astrology. The sign of the zodiac was substituted for the month in which the coin was minted. All of this was considered haram by the ulema due to which his successor Shahjahan ordered all those coins melted, accounting for their extreme rarity now.{{Cite magazine |last=Sharma |first=Kamayani |date=2022-09-13 |title=Why did Mughal emperor Jahangir issue these rare and singular astrology-themed coins? |url=https://scroll.in/magazine/1032653/why-did-mughal-emperor-jahangir-issue-these-rare-and-singular-astrology-themed-coins |access-date=2024-10-14 |magazine=Scroll.in |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The COININDIA Coin Galleries: Jahangir |url=https://coinindia.com/galleries-jahangir.html |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=coinindia.com}}

Jahangir had a strong inclination toward pragmatism, reason and skepticism. He often remarked on unusual occurrences by stating, "This is so strange, it is recorded here," or dismissing claims that defied logic with, "It does not accord with reason, and my mind does not accept it." While he upheld religious tolerance, his patience did not extend to deceitful religious practices. He swiftly punished a self-proclaimed guru who displeased him, expelled a yogi while destroying his idol for performing a superstitious ritual with his visitors, and imprisoned a renowned Naqshbandi Muslim scholar for a while, who, in his view, held an inflated sense of self-importance and hoodwinked people by peddling mysticism. However, he was not without his own biases. He maintained a deep reverence for the tombs of saints and firmly believed in the power of holy men’s prayers, particularly those he credited with enabling his birth. He held faith in astrology and ensured he gave alms to counteract the negative effects of unfavorable planetary alignments.

According to Richard M Eaton, Emperor Jahangir issued many edicts admonishing his nobles not to convert the religion of anybody by force, but the issuance of such orders also suggests that such conversions must have occurred during his rule in some measure. He continued the Mughals tradition of being scrupulously secular in outlook. Stability, loyalty, and revenue were the main focus, not the religious change among their subjects.{{Cite news |last=Ashraf |first=Ajaz |title='We will never know the number of temples desecrated through India's history': Richard Eaton |url=http://scroll.in/article/769463/we-will-never-know-the-number-of-temples-desecrated-through-indias-history-richard-eaton |access-date=2022-05-17 |work=Scroll.in |date=20 November 2015 |language=en-US |archive-date=26 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526191846/https://scroll.in/article/769463/we-will-never-know-the-number-of-temples-desecrated-through-indias-history-richard-eaton |url-status=live }}

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Jahangir was fascinated with art and architecture. In his autobiography, the Jahangirnama, Jahangir recorded events that occurred during his reign, descriptions of flora and fauna that he encountered, and other aspects of daily life, and commissioned court painters such as Ustad Mansur to paint detailed pieces that would accompany his vivid prose.{{Cite book|last=Cleveland Beach|first=Milo|title=Mughal and Rajput Painting|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1992|location=Cambridge|page=90}} For example, in 1619, he put pen to paper in awe of a royal falcon delivered to his court from the ruler of Iran: "What can I write of the beauty of this bird's colour? It had black markings, and every feather on its wings, back, and sides was extremely beautiful," and then recorded his command that Ustad Mansur paint a portrait of it after it perished.{{Cite book|last=Jahangir|title=The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha|publisher=Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Association with Oxford University Press|year=1999|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/314 314]|isbn=978-0-19-512718-8 |translator-last=Thackston|translator-first=W.M.}} "Nadiri" was a type of exclusive clothing designed by Jahangir, reserved for his personal use and esteemed courtiers.{{Cite book |last=Findly |first=Ellison Banks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugxFjVDk3I8C&dq=nadiri%28dress%29&pg=PA221 |title=Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India |date=1993-03-25 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-536060-8 |page=221 |language=en |access-date=9 May 2023 |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715064900/https://books.google.com/books?id=ugxFjVDk3I8C&dq=nadiri(dress)&pg=PA221 |url-status=live }} Jahangir bound and displayed much of the art that he commissioned in elaborate albums of hundreds of images, sometimes organized around a theme such as zoology.{{Cite book|last=Cleveland Beach|first=Milo|title=Mughal and Rajput Painting|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1992|location=Cambridge|page=82}}

Jahangir himself was far from modest in his autobiography when he stated his prowess at being able to determine the artist of any portrait by simply looking at a painting. As he said: {{blockquote|text=...my liking for painting and my practice in judging it have arrived at such point when any work is brought before me, either of deceased artists or of those of the present day, without the names being told me, I say on the spur of the moment that is the work of such and such a man. And if there is a picture containing many portraits and each face is the work of a different master, I can discover which face is the work of each of them. If any other person has put in the eye and eyebrow of a face, I can perceive whose work the original face is and who has painted the eye and eyebrow.}}

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Jahangir took his connoisseurship of art very seriously. He also preserved paintings from Emperor Akbar's period. An excellent example of this is the painting done by Ustad Mansur of Musician Naubat Khan, son-in-law of legendary Tansen. In addition to their aesthetic qualities, paintings created under his reign were closely catalogued, dated and even signed, providing scholars with fairly accurate ideas as to when and in what context many of the pieces were created.

In the foreword to W. M. Thackston's translation of the Jahangirnama, Milo Cleveland Beach explains that Jahangir ruled during a time of considerably stable political control, and had the opportunity to order artists to create art to accompany his memoirs that were "in response to the emperor's current enthusiasms".{{Cite book|last=Jahangir|title=The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha|publisher=Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Association with Oxford University Press|year=1999|location=New York|page=vii|isbn=978-0-19-512718-8 |translator-last=Thackston|translator-first=W.M.}} He used his wealth and his luxury of free time to chronicle, in detail, the lush natural world that the Mughal Empire encompassed. At times, he would have artists travel with him for this purpose; when Jahangir was in Rahimabad, he had his painters on hand to capture the appearance of a specific tiger that he shot and killed because he found it to be particularly beautiful.{{Cite book|last=Verma|first=Som Prakash|title=Mughal Painter of Flora and Fauna: Ustād Manṣūr|publisher=Abhinav Publications|year=1999|location=New Delhi|page=25}}

He had his artist Govardhan travel to Prayagraj(Allahabad) to paint sadhus. This resulted in the earliest set of images depicting sadhus in all yogic positions.{{Cite web |last1=Dalrymple |first1=William |last2=Anand |first2=Anita |title=Jahangir: A World of Light And Darkness(Ep1) |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/6xDj4HLlFSAA6MrzzQANos?si=7db988896c474760 |website=Spotify}}

The Jesuits had brought with them various books, engravings, and paintings and, when they saw the delight Akbar held for them, sent for more and more of the same to be given to the Mughals. They felt the Mughals were on the "verge of conversion", a notion which proved to be very false. Instead, both Akbar and Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted it, adopting much of the early iconographic features and later the pictorial realism for which Renaissance art was known. Jahangir was notable for his pride in the ability of his court painters. A classic example of this is described in Sir Thomas Roe's diaries, in which the Emperor had his painters copy a European miniature several times creating a total of five miniatures. Jahangir then challenged Roe to pick out the original from the copies, a feat Sir Thomas Roe could not do, to the delight of Jahangir.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Jahangir was also revolutionary in his adaptation of European styles. A collection at the British Museum in London contains seventy-four drawings of Indian portraits dating from the time of Jahangir, including a portrait of the emperor himself. These portraits are a unique example of art during Jahangir's reign because faces were not drawn in full, including the shoulders as well as the head as these drawings are.''

{{cite book |last1=Losty |first1=J.P. |title=The Carpet at the Window: a European Motif in the Mughal Jharokha Portrait |publisher=Mapin Publishing |location=Ahmedabad |date=2013 |pages=52–64 |editor1-last=Sharma |editor1-first=M |editor2-last=Kaimal |editor2-first=P |series=Indian Painting: Themes, History and Interpretations; Essays in Honour of B.N. Goswamy}}

Jahangir is widely considered to have been a weak and incapable ruler.{{cite book |last1=Lach |first1=Donald F. |last2=Kley |first2=Edwin J. Van |title=Asia in the Making of Europe Vol. III, Bk. 2: A Century of Advance, South Asia |date=1998 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0-226-46767-2 |page=629 |edition=Pbk.}}{{cite book |last1=Flores |first1=Jorge |title=The Mughal Padshah: A Jesuit Treatise on Emperor Jahangir's Court and Household |date=2015 |publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-30753-7 |page=9 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Schimmel |first1=Annemarie |author-link=Annemarie Schimmel |editor-last=Waghmar |editor-first=Burzine K. |translator-last=Attwood |translator-first=Corinne |title=The empire of the Great Mughals: history, art and culture |date=2005 |publisher=Sang-E-Meel Pub. |location=Lahore |isbn=978-1-86189-185-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/empireofgreatmug00anne/page/45 45] |edition=Revised |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/empireofgreatmug00anne/page/45 }}{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=Valerie |last2=Curtis |first2=Ken |title=Voyages in World History, Volume 1 to 1600 |date=2013 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-285-41512-3 |page=446 |language=en}} Orientalist Henry Beveridge (editor of the Tuzk-e-Jahangiri) compares Jahangir to the Roman emperor Claudius, for both were "weak men... in their wrong places as rulers... [and had] Jahangir been head of a Natural History Museum,... [he] would have been [a] better and happier man."{{sfn|Findly|1993|p=311}} Further he notes, "He made no addition to the imperial territories, but on the contrary, diminished them by losing Qandahar to the Persians. But possibly his peaceful temper, or his laziness, was an advantage, for it saved much bloodshed. His greatest fault as a king was his subservience to his wife, Nur-Jahan, and the consequent quarrel with his son, Shah Jahan, who was the ablest and best of his male children".{{cite book|last1=Beveridge|first1=Henry|title=Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society, London|volume=II|page=6(preface)|url=https://indianculture.gov.in/rarebooks/tuzuk-l-jahangiri-or-memoris-jahangir-thirteenth-beginning-nineteenth-year-his-reign|access-date=31 August 2022|archive-date=31 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831183934/https://indianculture.gov.in/rarebooks/tuzuk-l-jahangiri-or-memoris-jahangir-thirteenth-beginning-nineteenth-year-his-reign|url-status=live}} Sir William Hawkins, who visited Jahangir's court in 1609, said: "In such short that what this man's father, called Ecber Padasha [Badshah Akbar], got of the Deccans, this king, Selim Sha [Jahangir] beginneth to lose."{{sfn|Findly|1993|p=311}} Italian writer and traveller, Niccolao Manucci, who worked under Jahangir's grandson, Dara Shikoh, began his discussion of Jahangir by saying: "It is a truth tested by experience that sons dissipate what their fathers gained in the sweat of their brow."{{sfn|Findly|1993|p=311}}

According to John F. Richards, Jahangir's frequent withdrawal to a private sphere of life was partly reflective of his indolence, brought on by his addiction to a considerable daily dosage of wine and opium.{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=John F |title=The New Cambridge History of India: Mughal Empire |date=2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Delhi |isbn=978-81-85618-49-4 |page=102}}

Jahangir had a keen interest in conducting his own scientific experiments. He challenged the widely accepted belief about the aggressiveness of mountain sheep, investigated the effectiveness of bitumen for healing broken bones using a chicken (which proved ineffective), and compared the air quality of Ahmadabad and Mahmudabad by observing the rate of decay in sheep carcasses. Additionally, he actively engaged in animal husbandry and goat breeding, accurately estimated the gestation period of elephants, and studied the livers of lions and wolves to determine whether the location of their gall bladders, whether they were inside or outside the liver, correlated with courage.{{Cite book |last=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan |title=The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India |publisher=Oxford University Press |year= |isbn=978-0-19-512718-8 |location=New York |publication-date=1999 |pages=xxiv |translator-last=Thackston |translator-first=Wheeler M.}}

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• In the 1939 Hindi film Pukar, Jehangir was portrayed by Chandra Mohan.{{cite book |last=Bajaj |first=J. K. |date=2014 |title=On & Behind the Indian Cinema |url={{Google books|_1UqAwAAQBAJ|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |publisher=Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |page=2020 |isbn=978-93-5083-621-7}}
• In the 1953 Hindi film Anarkali, he was portrayed by Pradeep Kumar.{{cite book |last=U |first=Saiam Z. |date=2012 |title=Houseful The Golden Years of Hindi Cinema |url={{Google books|JSVCCwAAQBAJ|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |publisher=Om Books International |isbn=978-93-80070-25-4}}
• In the 1955 Hindi film Adil-E-Jahangir, he was portrayed by D. K. Sapru.
• In the 1955 Telugu film Anarkali, he was portrayed by ANR.
• In the 1958 Urdu film Anarkali, he was portrayed by Sudhir.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/118242-Anarkali-screened-at-Mandwa|title='Anarkali' screened at Mandwa|date=8 May 2016|work=The News International |archive-date=23 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223093304/https://www.thenews.com.pk/amp/118242-Anarkali-screened-at-Mandwa|access-date=10 April 2023|url-status=live}}
• In the 1960 Hindi film Mughal-e-Azam, he was portrayed by Dilip Kumar.{{cite news |title=Mughal-E-Azam: Lesser known facts |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo-features/Mughal-E-Azam-Lesser-known-facts/photostory/47653911.cms |newspaper=The Times of India |access-date=12 July 2016 |archive-date=13 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013121528/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo-features/Mughal-E-Azam-Lesser-known-facts/photostory/47653911.cms |url-status=live }} Jalal Agha also played the younger Jahangir at the start of the film.
• In the 1966 Malayalam film Anarkali, he was portrayed by Prem Nazir.{{cite news |last=Vijaykumar |first=B. |title=Anarkali 1966 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/anarkali-1966/article788581.ece |date=31 May 2010 |newspaper=The Hindu |issn=0971-751X |access-date=12 July 2016}}
• In the 1979 Telugu film Akbar Salim Anarkali, he was portrayed by Balakrishna.
• In the 1988 Shyam Benegal's TV Series Bharat Ek Khoj, he was portrayed by Vijay Arora.
• Jahangirer Swarnamudra is a detective story about a missing gold coin of Jahangir written by Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, starring his famous character Feluda. It was adapted as a television film in 1998.
• In the 2000 TV series Noorjahan, he was portrayed by Milnd Soman.{{cite magazine |last=Vetticad |first=Anna M. M. |date=27 September 1999 |title=Model Milind Soman to play Salim in serial Noorjahan on DD1 |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/model-milind-soman-to-play-salim-in-serial-noorjahan-on-dd1/1/255257.html |magazine=India Today |access-date=12 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815223107/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/model-milind-soman-to-play-salim-in-serial-noorjahan-on-dd1/1/255257.html |archive-date=15 August 2016 |url-status=live}}
• In the 2013 Ekta Kapoor's TV Series Jodha Akbar, he was portrayed by Ravi Bhatia. Ayaan Zubair Rahmani also played young Salim initially.
• In the 2014 Indu Sudaresan's TV Series Siyaasat, he was portrayed by Karanvir Sharma and Later Sudhanshu Pandey.{{cite news |last=Kotwani |first=Hiren |date=20 March 2015 |title=Sudhanshu Pandey replaces Karanvir Sharma in Siyaasat |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Sudhanshu-Pandey-replaces-Karanvir-Sharma-in-Siyaasat/articleshow/46632331.cms |newspaper=The Times of India |access-date=12 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031413/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Sudhanshu-Pandey-replaces-Karanvir-Sharma-in-Siyaasat/articleshow/46632331.cms |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=live}}
• In the 2014 Indian television sitcom Har Mushkil Ka Hal Akbar Birbal, Pawan Singh portrayed the role of prince Salim.
• In the 2018 Colors TV series Dastaan-E-Mohabbat Salim Anarkali, he is portrayed by Shaheer Sheikh.
• In the 2023 ZEE5's web series Taj: Divided by Blood, he is portrayed by Aashim Gulati.

• Jahangir is a principal character in Indu Sundaresan's award-winning historical novel The Twentieth Wife (2002){{Cite book|last=Sundaresan|first=Indu|url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethwife00sund_0/page/11|title=Twentieth wife: a novel|publisher=Washington Square Press|isbn=978-0-7434-2818-7|edition=Paperback|location=New York|year=2002}} as well as in its sequel The Feast of Roses (2003).{{Cite book|last=Sundaresan|first=Indu|title=The Feast of Roses: A Novel|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-7434-8196-0|year=2003}}
• Jahangir is a principal character in Alex Rutherford's novel Ruler of the World (2011){{Cite book|last=Rutherford|first=Alex|title=Ruler of the World|publisher=Hachette UK|year=2011|isbn=978-0-755-34758-2}} as well as in its sequel The Tainted Throne (2012){{Cite book|last=Rutherford|first=Alex|title=The Tainted Throne|publisher=Hachette UK|year=2012|isbn=978-0-755-34761-2}} of the series Empire of the Moghul.
• Jahangir is a character in novel Nur Jahan's Daughter (2005) written by Tanushree Poddar.{{Cite book|last=Podder|first=Tanushree|title=Nur Jahan's Daughter|publisher=Rupa & Co.|year=2005|isbn=978-81-291-0722-0|location=New Delhi}}
• Jahangir is a character in the novel Beloved Empress Mumtaz Mahal: A Historical Novel by Nina Consuelo Epton.{{Cite book|last=Epton|first=Nina Consuelo|title=Beloved Empress Mumtaz Mahal: A Historical Novel|publisher=Roli Books|year=1996}}
• Jahangir is a principal character in the novel Nurjahan: A historical novel by Jyoti Jafa.{{Cite book|last=Jafa|first=Jyoti|title=Nurjahan: A Historical Novel|publisher=Writers Workshop|year=1978|location=India}}
• Jahangir is a character in the novel Taj, a Story of Mughal India by Timeri Murari.{{Cite book|last=Murari|first=Timeri|title=Taj, a Story of Mughal India|publisher=Penguin|year=2004}}

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• {{cite book |last=Elliot |first=Henry Miers |author-link=Henry Miers Elliot |date=1875 |title=Wakiʼat-i Jahangiri |url=https://archive.org/stream/wakiatijahangiri00jaha#page/n5/mode/2up |location=Lahore |publisher=Sheikh Mubarak Ali}}
• [http://www.kforknowledge.com/2011/09/jehangir-and-shah-jehan.html Jehangir and Shah Jehan]
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• [http://www.jainpedia.org/themes/places/jainism-and-islam/jains-and-the-mughals.html Jains and the Mughals]

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