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FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

Light of the World – Nur Jahan in Legend and History
Speaker: Dr. Ruby Lal, Dept. of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta USA
 
Chair: Ms Namita Gokhale (tbc)
 
The written and visual sources for Nur Jahan’s sovereignty, life and times, are opulent. Foremost among the Persian records is the memoir of her husband – Emperor, the Jahangirnama, in which she merges in unprecedented terms: sensitive consort, skilled politician, aesthetic woman. This lecture brings together the ‘facts’ of the historical record with the legends of the public imagination in order to capture Nur’s life in a more rounded fashion

Event starts on Thursday, 08 January 2015 at 05:30 hrs

Type

Talks

Dates

08 Jan 2015, 05:30 AM

Venue

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY