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The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2)

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An imperial memoir that records a sequence of yearly entries detailing court ceremonies, appointments, gifts, diplomatic and military movements, and administrative orders; it interweaves precise observations of nature and material culture, notes on coinage and a celestial apparition, an account of a plague, a rich description of Kashmir, and anecdotes such as a tale about a gardener’s daughter and remarks on painters and paintings, offering a blend of official chronicle and personal reflection on governance, artistic patronage, and everyday court life.

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Kabīr Bārha, rioter, executed, 284

Kairāna pargana, 112, 193

Kākāpūr bhang, 171

Kalānaur visited, 114, 115

Kalyān, Raja of Ratanpūr, 93

Kalyān, blacksmith, tragic fate of, 211

Kāngṛa, 25, 114, 167;
taking of, 183;
J. visits, 223

Kānkrīya tank, 22, 23, 33

Kapūr tank, 68

Karohi, ring hunt at, 120

Kashmīr, account of, 130 et seq.;
praise of, 143;
gifts to poor of, 234

Kashmīris dirty habits, 148;
merchants and artificers Sunnīs, soldiers Shias, 149

K͟halīl Mīrzā, painting by, 116

K͟halīlu-llah s. ʿAẓdu-d-daula, 83

K͟hān ʿĀlam, ambassador to Persia, 10, 24, 115, 211, 219

K͟hān Aʿz̤am, or ʿAzīz Koka, captures Muz̤affar Gujarātī, 19, 250, 256;
guardian of Dāwar-Bak͟hs͟h, 260, 261

K͟hān Daurān, real name S͟hāh Beg, arrives from Kabul, 61;
appointed Sind, 81;
his petition, 97;
his sons, 97;
death, 172

K͟hān Jahān Lodī entertains J., 80;
gov. Agra, 81;
anecdote by, 163;
renounces wine, 165;
village given to, 172;
gov. Multan, 191, 233, 234;
illness, 259;
comes from Multan, 281, 285, 295

K͟hanjar K., gov. Ahmadnagar, 9, 112

K͟hān-k͟hānān ʿAbdu-r-Raḥīm (which see), ode by, 15, 21, 57;
appointed Deccan, 60, 155;
misconduct of, 250, 253, 273, 274, 277, 278, 279

K͟hidmat K., 83

K͟hiẓr K. of K͟handesh, 83, 196, 198, 211

Khūshāb given K͟hān Daurān, 97

K͟husrau released, 107;
death of, 228

K͟hwāja Ḥasan K͟hāldār, 91

K͟hwāja Jahān, real name Dost Muḥ, 28;
in charge Agra, 67;
presents gifts, 76;
promoted, 81;
arranges ring hunt, 83;
promoted, 95;
death and character, 121, 122

K͟hwāja Beg Ṣafawī, s. Maʿsūm Beg, death of, 9

Kifāyat K., Diwan Gujarat, 37, 40

King and Gardener’s d. story, 50

Kis͟han Dās Raja, 111, 123, 287

Kis͟htwār, 135–138;
Raja of, 139–140, 171, 234, 238

Koel, The, 7

Kokhra, diamond mine, 22

Kos, correct length of, 141 and note

Kūh-i-Madār, 225

Kunhar, brother of Sundar, 261

Kunwar Singh Raja of Kis͟htwār, released from Gwalior, 238
(probably he is the Raja mentioned at pp. 139–140)

Kuwārmat Kotal, 133

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Lachmī Narāyan, Raja Kūch Bihār, receives present and allowed to depart, 2

Lahore, 183

Laʿl Beg made record-keeper, 194, 274

Laʿnatu-llah, J.’s nickname for ʿAbdullah Fīrūz Jang, 255, 262, 298, etc.

Lār visited, 176

Las͟hkar K., gov. Agra, comes from Deccan, 81, 83, 102, 196, 197;
nine lakhs taken from his house by S. Jahān, 250, 296

Las͟hkarī, s. Yūsuf, 11 and note, 81, 83, 102

Las͟hkarī, s. Imām-wīrdī, 288

Loka Bhawan, spring, 174

Luqmān, lines about, 105 and note

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Machhī Bhawan fountain, 172

Mādho Singh made Raja, 287

Maghs, 93

Mahābat K., gov. Bangāsh, 40;
reinforcements sent to, 82, 85;
sends apples, 101;
does homage, 101, 124;
gets elephant, 125, 161;
visits J., 231;
victory over S͟hāh-Jahān, 271;
promoted, 275, 279, 281, 282, 284, 288, 294, 295, 296, 297

Māhī River, 7, 8, 28;
bridged, 41

Maḥmūd III., 33

Maḥmūd Bīgara, 33

Maḥmūdābād, 33

Maktūb, librarian, promoted, 22

Māldeo, landholder, 99

Malik-maidān gun, 163

Maʿmūr K., architect, 183

Mān Singh, s. Rāwat S͟hankar, promoted, 18, 165

Manṣūr, painter, styled Nādir-ul-ʿAṣr, 20, 108, 145, 157

Manṣūr K. Farangī, 258;
death of, 271

Manūchahr, s. S͟hāh Nawāz, 88, 269;
joins Parwīz, 269;
appointed Jālnāpūr, 296

Mārk͟hūr goats, 88

Masīḥu-z-zamān (also called Ḥakīm Ṣadrā), physician, 11;
bad behaviour of, 213, 217

Masulipatam, S͟hāh Jahān visits, 290

Meteoric stone, fall of, 204

Mosque built by J. at Kāngṛa, 227, 228

Maryam zamānī, J.’s mother, her well, 64 and note;
too ill to come, 66;
visits J., 68;
goes Kashmīr, 123, 202;
death, 261

Mīr Mīrān made gov. Delhi, 195, 196;
promoted, 232

Mīrzā Muḥ., s. Afẓal, dīwān, killed, 289 290

Miyān S͟haik͟h of Muḥ. Mīr, 119

Monkeys, 180

Mouse and plague, 66

Mubāriz K. promoted, 163

Muḥ. Sayyid gets Qoran, told to translate it, 34

Muʿizzī, poet, his ode, 29

Mukarram K. comes from Orissa, 8;
gov. Delhi, 209, 218

Muk͟hliṣ K. comes from Bengal, 104;
dīwān of Parwīz, 107

Mulberries, 146

Mullā Muḥ. Kas͟hmīrī (? translator Rājataranginī), 187

Mūminā, physician, 231, 232;
promoted, 282

Mumtāz K., gov. Agra, death, 285

Muqarrab, gov. Bihar, 35, 38, 72 78, 89;
his garden, 112, 193;
gov. Agra, 285

Muqīm Bak͟hs͟hī styled Kifāyat K., 276

Murg͟h-i-zarīn, golden pheasant (?), 221

Murtaẓā K., real name Farīd Buk͟hārī, 29;
at siege Kāngṛa, 55;
death, 55

Muruwwat K. sends elephants from Bengal, 2;
promoted, 7;
sends eight elephants, 40;
death in battle with the Maghs, 93

Mūsawī, 164, 249, 250; made examiner of petitions, 257

Musk deer, 151

Muṣt̤afā K., gov. Sind, 232

Muʾtamid, author Iqbālnāma, in charge artillery, 1;
promoted, 2;
makes offering, 100–01;
in Kashmīr, 128;
sent to select a site, 129, 131–132, 158;
examiner petitions, 175;
obtains leave, 193;
Bak͟hs͟hī Deccan and sent for, 235;
continues J.’s journal, 246

Muz̤affar, gov. Sind, comes Court, 18;
honoured, 24, 26 (?)

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Nādir-ul-ʿAṣr, painter, title of Ustād Manṣūr, 20 and note, 157

Nāhir K. comes from Deccan, 8;
promoted, 22;
of Hindu origin, his history, 267, 268

Nainsukh River, 127

Naṣru-llah ʿArab, 135, 138, 170

Naus͟hahra, in Kashmīr, 181

Nāyaks, two Kas͟hmīrī landholders, 180

New Year Feasts, 1, 78, 130, 199, 230, 253, 294

Niz̤āmi quoted, 273

Nūh Forest in Aligarh, 270

Nūr-bak͟hs͟hīs sect, 149

Nūr-Jahān, wife J., nurses S͟hujāʾ, 45;
illness of, 74;
shoots tiger, 105;
daughter’s marriage, 187, 190;
gives entertainment, 192, 199;
writes Imām Qulī’s mother, 205;
grand entertainment, 214;
mother’s death, 216;
father’s death, 221, 222;
powers granted to, 228;
S͟hāh-Jahān seizes her fief, 235;
buys two pearls, 237, 239 and note;
writes to her cousin’s husband, Ḥusāma-d-dīn, 277;
intercedes for Jagat Singh, 289

Nūr-afs͟hān garden, 197

Nūr-manzil garden, same as Dohra garden, 277

Nūrpūr, 154, 226

Nūru-d-dīn Qulī, kotwāl, makes offerings, 80

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Orissa, Ḥasan ʿAlī Turkmān made gov. of, 162, 298

Otto of roses (at̤ar Jahāngīrī), 115 and note

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Painters, account of, 20

Paklī, account of, 126

Pālam, hunting-ground, 109

Pāmpūr, 170

Panj Brāra in Kashmīr, 171

Panjū, landholder of Khandesh, 21

Papīhā bird, 164

Parī Beg, chief huntsman, 107

Parwīz Sultan, s. J., birth of a son, 19;
sends elephant, 70;
promoted, 82;
sent for, 84;
asks for dress, 90;
waits on J., 93;
takes leave, 107;
gets village in Kashmīr, 171;
death of eldest son, 110;
dress sent to, 194;
made gov. Bihar, 200;
visits J., 215;
J. meets him, 258;
promoted to 40,000 with 30,000 horse, 259;
gifts to, 260, 271, 272, 275;
report from, 277, 282, 288, 294;
marries Rāja Gaj Singh’s sister, 295, 296

Partridge, albino, 284

Peaches, 170, 205

Pearl, lost and found, 235

Phūl paikār, name of a bird, 220–221

Picture gallery, 161–162

Pillars (mīl) erected at each koss, 100

Pīm darang, 128 and note

Pīplī, 298

Pīrpanjal Pass, 179

Plague in Agra, 6, 65–67

Prithī Chand, s. Manohar, 25, 26;
killed, 155

Promotions, 83, 153, 155, 232, 250, 254, 256, 258, 261

Pūnch route, 97