Nūr Jahān holding a portrait of her husband, Emperor Jahāngīr
Image source: wiki/The Cleveland Museum of Art
Ruby Lal is Professor of South Asian History at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. She is the author of Domesticity And Power In The Early Mughal World (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Coming Of Age In Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child And The Art Of Playfulness (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Find out more at rubylal.com.
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