In same day Tajmahal tour the visit of Baby Tajmahal is very interesting with best guides. You will discover the story of most powerful Mughal empress with your agra oral historian & storyteller. Her name was Mehr un nissa. She was given the title later Nur Jahan. She gave the permission to east india company to do trading in India. This decision of her changed the future Mughal empire. Our best same day tajmahal tour takes you deeper in real history with best guides in Agra.
She was abandoned by her father during birth because he could not feed her due to poverty. Her father was travelling to India from Iran to find job under Mughal King Akbar. The way today we Indians travel to Usa in search of career the same way people used to travel to Agra, India in 16 & 17 century. Mughals became rich and powerful in India due to tax collection system, business & commerce and Administration skills for which India & Bhartiya kings were known from 4th century AD when Turk prince Tamerlane & Mongolian warrior Changez khan was not even born.
Her father Mirza gyas beg became treasurer in the court of Mughal King Akbar by reference. He had no idea the girl he was about to abandoned in the valleys of Afghanistan will change his fortune forever. Mirza Ghiyas beg himself made money for family through corruption. He used to charge commission for every duty done for locals of Agra and Delhi. locals hated him for his corrupt nature but Mughal king Akbar gave him promotion beacuase he was was good for Mughal bank accounts.
She was raised up nicely with etiquettes and manners, knowledge & skills , best education. She was beauty with mind. Her father had great confidence on her. He gave credit to her birth for wealth he made not the corruption he did with locals of Bharat. All these ministers of Mughals looked upon locals as money making objects because it was not their native land. And maximum ministers sent money for their relatives in Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan by making money from locals of Agra, Delhi and other parts of Bharat.
She fall in love with Jahangir who was son of Mughal King Akbar. But Akbar did not like this and he arranged marriage of her with his commander in Bengal. This was ploy to send her away from his son Jahangir. This marriage created a big friction in between father & son relationship. Jahangir never forgot her and later when he became the King created a ploy to kill her husband and remarried her this is how she became the twentieth wife of The King.
Jahangir got addicted with opium & wine and she took over all the administrative resposibilites of the court. The position of her father & brother raised up in the Mughal court. She also arranged marriage of her brothers daughter Mum Taj Mahal to future king Shahjahan. Jahangir never trusted the British east india company for business , he had more trust on Portuguese. But Nur Jahan had different plans.
