Mumtaz Kahal: The Ideas Of The Taj Mahal

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Recommended: Significance of the taj mahal

For about more than three centuries, the Taj Mahal has possessed the imaginations of

people all over the world. It was a tomb built by a distressed Emperor Shah Jahan of the

Mughal India in the memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Banu

Begum).

The aunt of Mumtaz Mahal, (her father's sister) Empress Nur Jahan, and the twentieth

beloved wife of Emperor Jahangir, was the most powerful female Empress of Mughal

Dynasty.

In 1577, as a winter hailstorm grumped in the distant outpost of Qandahar, a baby girl

was born in a nomad tent named Mehrunnisa ­ 'the sun among women'. Her parents, were

poor and penniless and moving as refugees from their home in Persia. She was born as

the fourth child to a this family, her father Ghias Beg disowned her because of his …show more content…

The might of love between the Emperor and his darling wife was so powerful that

he was even ready to take the contempt of his courtiers. Mehrunissa leisurely

and very sophistically exhibited, herself as brilliant, winsome and introspective women.

A common woman who ascended to attain authority, distinction, fortune and triumph in a

male ­ dominated society in Mughal India was solitary an eccentricity in itself. It was not

just beauty but her brains which made Jahangir and the entire Mughal Empire to bow in

front of her. Mehrunissa was more of a man than any other man in that Mughal Era. In

fact, she was actually running the show behind Jahangir.

Plunged in her new life as Empress, Mehrunnisa even used her daughter Ladli as a

puppet in her strategy, ignoring her daughter's wants and loves and nearly losing Ldli's

trust. But she never loses the love of the person who granted this great power upon her,

Emperor Jahangir.

Mehrunnisa was best known by the title Emperor Jahangir bestowed upon her as

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