Jehangir : Jahangir (Jahan = universe) (1569-1627), born of a Rajput wife of Akbar & Salim, he rebelled against Akbar in 1601 but was pardoned in 1604. On the eve of Akbar’s death in 1605, some of his ministers attempted to install Salim’s eldest son Khusrav (the most popular of his three sons) on the throne with the support of Khusrav’s maternal uncle Raja Mān Singh of Amber who entered into service of Akbar in 1562 when his father gave his sister in marriage to Akbar, he proved a staunch supporter & one of the best generals of Akbar who made him governor of Kabul & Bengal (he died 1614). The attempt failed & Salim ascended the throne as Jahangir. In 1606, failing to punish Raja Mān Singh, Jahangir executed 25 year-old Arjan Singh, 5th Guru of the Sikhs, who had compiled the Ādi Grantha with select verses from the previous Sikhs Gurus & many Hindu & Muhammedan saints, for having sympathised with Khusrav’s cause. In 1611, he married Noor Jahan who in no time took over the actual administration of his empire, even minting coins with her name on them. In 1620, after the third failed attempt to enthrone Khusrav (who had refused to marry Noor Jahan’s daughter by a previous husband), Jahangir blinded him & gave him in custody of his second son Khurram who hated him & got him secretly killed in1622. Neither as proficient a general or as far-sighted as his father, usurped Ahmadnagar in 1616, & Kangra in 1620; reduced Usman Khan of Bengal & Rāṇā Amar Singh of Mewār to feudatories; but lost Kandahar to the Shah of Persia in 1622. When Khurram revolted against Jahangir in 1624, his younger brother Parviz, who helped Jahangir subdue him, was made heir-apparent. Parviz died in 1626, Jahangir in 1627, & Khurram ascended the throne in 1627 as Shah Jahan. ― Alas, like Akbar, Jahangir ignored the need of a strong navy of his own, depending instead on other European traders-raiders to fight the Portuguese naval raids on his territories (see East India Co.). In 1617, Thomas Roe, an agent of E.I. Co., attended Jahangir’s birthday party in Mandu, capital of Mālwā usurped by Akbar in 1580. In 1618, Roe met him in Ahmadābād & labelling it “the greatest town in Hindustan, perhaps the world”, comparable to London, where “every English fleet sends his factors”, conned him into writing to James I (see James VI): :…it is my pleasure & I do command that to all the English merchants in all my dominions there be given freedom & residence...& that their goods & merchandise they may sell or traffic with according to their own will...& that all their ships may come & go to my ports wheresoever they choose at their own will.” Deluded Jahangir failed to see he had, in effect, ceded the Moghul Empire into the jaws of the insatiable British Octopus.
... tales of the gods as they might be imagined by the Bengali villager in the type of his own human life, telling in the second a romantic love story and in the third a historical incident of the time of Jehangir, all these disparate elements forming the development of the one central motive and presented without any imaginative elevation but with an unsurpassable vividness of description and power of vital ...
... single poet, for that doubt has been raised also with regard to Homer. September 12,1931 Sri Aurobindo's comments on Dilip's translation into Bengali of three poems from James Cousins, Jehangir Vakil and Tennyson. Page 103 The first translation is good, the second superb and the third (third version) superlative. Cousins' poem is very felicitous in expression—generally he ...
... writing in English that they may be successful poets but it is not as if the very man spoke. Their work gives the impression of one who has studied English literature and spun out something. I read Jehangir Vakil's poem. The same difficulty. Mrs. Naidu wrote something fine at times and she had a power of expression but her range was small. Harin and Amal have been thinking and speaking in English ...
... sanctions being imposed on Pakistan. As a result of the sanctions, the economic condition deteriorated and affected the professional and corporate interests of the military. The army chief, General Jehangir Karamat, proposed the establishment of a national security council.. .that was interpreted as an indictment of the civilian government. This caused friction between the army chief and Nawaz Sharif ...
... J. School of Arts, Bombay I HAVE been overcome these two days by the world of art rushing upon me here from all sides. My visit to your school and to Art Exhibition that is now on at the Jehangir Art Gallery has let loose forms of beauty from all over the world—not only from the present, but from the long forgotten past. Forms have rushed from Greece, from Italy of the Renaissance, from France ...
... its perfect voice throughout and mixed his inspiration—that seems to me the true estimate. A very fine poem, all the same. 5 November 1935 Remarks on Minor Indian Writers I don't remember [Jehangir] Vakil's poems very well, but they gave me the impression, I think, of much talent not amounting to genius, considerable achievement in language and rhythm but nothing that will stand out and endure ...
... thought", strikes me as very euphonious and the meaning found of "Rishaya" is indeed auspicious: "Ri" for "abundance" in Persian and "shaya" for "protection" in Sanskrit, as the research of Behram and Jehangir has discovered. How it stands numerologically - having number 9 thrice - is not clear to me. Will you send me, at your convenience, an explanation? Is numerology applied to the name as spelt in English ...
... advent of the British and the psychological factors that ultimately led to the aspiration for a united India. The British came to India as traders early in the 17th century. The Moghul emperor Jehangir permitted the English to trade in India in 1608. As a result, the English established a factory at Surat. However, India's connection with the West had started earlier with the Portuguese, who were ...
... United India Chapter 4 India under the British The British came to India originally as traders through the East India Company during the rule of Jehangir in the 16th century. The chief aim of the British at that time was to make an impact on the Dutch hold on the spice trade and to establish a lasting outpost. But the company soon established its military ...
... he takes up poetry here and doesn't go back— (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: He is one of the best among Indians who are writing in English. There is another from your part of the country. PURANI: Jehangir Vakil? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. But he didn't arrive at anything. NIRODBARAN: Armando Menezes' mother tongue, as well as Amal's, is practically English. SRI AUROBINDO: That is not everything, ...
... an industrialist he set standards and traditions far in advance of his days when, in 1869, he laid the first foundation stone of the present Tata industrial empire, Tata & Sons. It is his grandson, Jehangir Ratan Dadabhai Tata (J.R.D. - 1904), a legendary figure of our time, who has made the Tatas what they are today. -Feroz Shah Mehta (1845-1915) was one of the founding fathers of the Indian National ...
... (1666), on India's west coast. They got permit for trading during Aurangzeb's reign, who ruled a part of India from 1658 to 1707; exactly as the East India Company had got theirs when his grandfather Jehangir reigned. But all of them recognized the advantages of a foothold on the Coromandel coast. "The need for expansion of commerce pushed them [the Dutch] to get a footing in the Hindu territory further ...
... peaceful sect derived from among the Hindus. But the cruel policies of the Muslim rulers after Akbar alienated them. The fifth Guru, Arjan, was executed on Emperor Jehangir's order because, out of pity, he had given shelter to Jehangir's fugitive son, Prince Khusro. Arjan's son, the sixth Guru, Hargovind (1606-45), gave a military turn to Sikhism. Again, the ninth Guru, Tegh Bahadur, who preferred death ...
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