Nurmahali dress

{{short description|Dress designed by Nur Jahan}}

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Nurmahali dress is an inexpensive wedding dress with brocade, the introduction of which has been attributed to Nur Jahan (1577–1645). She designed many dresses; the Noormahali marriage dress was one of them. The dress was for poor people, a set for bride and brides groom was priced at only 25 rupees.{{Cite book|last=Findly|first=Ellison Banks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugxFjVDk3I8C|title=Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India|date=1993-03-25|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-536060-8|location=|pages=222|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Misra|first=Rekha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_mC-s_K-6sC|title=Women in Mughal India, 1526-1748 A.D.|date=1967|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal|isbn=978-81-215-0347-1|location=|pages=122|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Malika V: Nur Jahan - AramcoWorld|url=https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/November-2016/Malika-V-Nur-Jahan|access-date=2021-01-28|website=www.aramcoworld.com|date=26 October 2016 }}{{Cite book|last=Ojha|first=P. N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XtDAAAAYAAJ&q=Nurmahali+dress|title=Glimpses of Social Life in Mughal India|date=1979|publisher=Classical Publications|isbn=|location=|pages=21|language=en}} The dress is still in use.In the chapter he devotes to the empress, he notes that she bestowed gifts of clothing, jewels, horses, elephants, and cash ... designed an inexpensive style of wedding dress, still used today by brides of poorer families and called a Nur Mahali.

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Ruby Lal · 2018https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Empress/ijpnDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Nurmahali+dress&pg=PT116&printsec=frontcover