Jahangir’s mother and
Guardian
This is a mystery that had endured for many a decade and
every historian working on Moghul history and Agra has come up with their own
twist to it. When I started on this topic some years ago, I believed I could
get to the crux of the matter with some effort, but it proved to be so
difficult to peel the onion, as they say.
I spent so much time and effort in this study, perusing countless
articles and sources, finally reaching nowhere conclusively. Were Maryam Zamani and
Jahangir’s mother the same person? Or was it that there were two people in the picture?