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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.

Q

Qarqara, crane, 176

Qāsim K., s. Mīr Murād, formerly Mīr Qāsim and Bak͟hs͟hī of the Aḥadīs, made gov. of Punjab and given title of Qāsim K., 2;
he was son-in-law of Iʿtimādu-d-daula, having married Mānījā Begam, elder sister of Nūr-Jahān (Beale), and so Iʿtimādu-d-daula induced J. to make Qāsim gov. Punjab, 2;
removed from gov. Bengal, 50;
does homage, 117;
gov. Lahore, 182;
sent Kāngṛa, 192;
gov Punjab and given elephant, etc., 230 (he is the man who took Hugli in S͟hāh-Jahān’s reign);
promoted, 281

Qāsim K. S͟haik͟h, of Fatḥpūr Sīkrī, gov. Allahabad, and given title of Muḥtas͟him K., 202

Qāsim K͟hwāja of Dihbīd sends falcons, 10

Qāẓī ʿAbdu-l-ʿAzīz sent by S͟hāh-Jahān to Delhi, 295, 296

Qāẓī Naṣīr of Burhānpur visits J., 210

Qiyām K., story about Sāras, 17

Qizilbās͟h K. promoted, 12

Quails, 197

Qut̤ās oxen, 151

Qut̤bu-d-dīn Kokaltās͟h (killed by Sherāfgan), 71, 73 and note

Qut̤bu-l-mulk, ruler Golconda, 3;
sends diamond ring, 8, 90, 281;
assists S͟hāh-Jahān to march into Orissa, 291, 296, 298

R

Rafīq Ḥājī brings S. ʿAbbās’s letter and gets title of King of Merchants, 2

Raḥmāndād, s. K͟hān-K͟hānān, death of, 176

Rāja-tarangini translated by Akbar’s order, 140

Rājaur in Kashmīr, 180–181

Rāmgaṛh, 48

Ran-bāz, s, S͟hāh-bāz Kāmbū, promoted, 45

Ranthambūr Fort, 58

Rāy Mān K͟hidmatiyya, 83;
collects 800 antelopes at Amānābād, 83;
picks up S. S͟hujāʿ, 152

Revenue of Kis͟htwār, 139;
of Kashmīr, 143

Rīs͟hīs in Kashmīr, 149

Routes in and to Kashmīr, 139, 149

Ruby, remarkable, 195

Rudagī quoted, 222

Rūdar Bhattachāraj, 203

Rūḥu-llah, physician, rewarded, 11;
receives gifts, 33;
cures Nūr-Jahān, 53

Ruknā Ḥakīm, 43;
dismissed, 211, 212

Rustam-bārī, garden at Aḥmadābād, 30

Rustam K. in charge Gujarat, 8, 33

Rustam Mīrzā Ṣafawī promoted, 2;
attempts verse, 15;
promoted, 68;
skill in shooting, 105, 123, 133, 162, 245, 247, 249, 274;
made gov. Allahabad, 281

Rūz-afzūn, Rāja, sent to remonstrate with K͟hurram (S͟hāh-Jahān), 236, 249

S

Sābarmatī River, 21

S̤ābit K. (also called Dayānat), examiner of petitions, 1, 250

Sadi quoted, 36

Ṣādiq, soothsayer, 235

Ṣādiq K. promoted, 15, 82;
Chief Bak͟hs͟hī, 222;
gov. Punjab, 259

Ṣadr Jahān, 88;
faujdār Kanauj, 107

Ṣadrā Ḥakīm, bad behaviour of, 213, 217

Ṣafāpūr, in Kashmīr, 176

Saffron, account of, 177–178

Ṣafī K., 262;
his victory, 264–267

Saʿīdā, goldsmith and poet, known as Bī-badal, 29, 30, 179, 195, 197, 227, 228

Ṣalābat K., 274

Ṣāliḥ Beg killed, 266

Ṣāliḥ, nephew Jāʿfar promoted, 3;
at Bardwān, 298, 299

Ṣāliḥa Bānū, d. Qāʾim K., one of J.’s wives, also known as Pādis͟hāh Bānū Begam, 86 and note;
death, 159

Salīm Chis͟htī, J. visits tomb, 70;
account of saint’s death, 70, 71

Sanāʾī Ḥakīm, poet, verse of, 105

Sangrām, landholder, Punjab, 5, 88, 120, 138, 154, 171;
promoted, 175, 193

Sārang Deo Rāja promoted, 182, 250, 281

Sāras, birds, 16, 18, 23, 25, 32, 39, 42, 60

Sardār K., title of K͟hwāja Yādgār, b. of ʿAbdu-llah Fīrūz Jang (Blochmann, 492), 89

Sar-farāz K., title of Abdu-llah, s. ʿAzīz Koka, 2, 47

Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī, saint, 142

Sayyid Muḥ., descend. S͟hāh ʿĀlam, 34

Sazāwuls, twelve appointed Deccan, 235

Seer, weight of, 108 and note

Seventeenth Year, 230

S͟hāb-i-Barāt festival, 22, 94

S͟hāh-Jahān, s. J., tries his sword, 8;
attack of fever, 14;
his diamond ring, 14, 19;
undertakes conquest of Kāngṛa, 25;
asks a pargana for Bikramājīt, 26;
receives copy of Jahāngīr-nāma, 27;
sends K͟hūs͟h-ḥāl to S. ʿĀdil, 37, 39;
presents Kas͟hmīrī boat to his father, 47;
birth of Aurangzīb, 47;
birthday feast, 50;
asks pardon for Sūraj Mal, 55;
hawking, 60;
is weighed, 68;
grand entertainment, offerings to his father on New Year’s Day, 78–79;
death of mother, 84, 90;
presents tooth (walrus?) to his father, 96, 98;
birth of son (Umīd-bak͟hs͟h), 112, 113;
gives his father a sword of Venetian workmanship, 114;
pays his respects, 117, 185, 189, 190;
death of daughter, 203;
letter from him, 206;
J. sends presents to, 208;
twenty lakhs sent to, 215;
reports K͟husrau’s death, 228;
J. orders him to come with army, 231;
report of his misconduct, 235, 236, 238, 239, 243;
disloyalty, 247;
styled Bī-daulat, 248, 249, 250, 251, 253, 256, 257, 258, 262, 264;
levies four lakhs of Maḥmūdīs in Surat, 267, 269, 271, 272, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 289, 290, 294, 295, 298, 299

S͟hāh Nawāz K., s. K͟hān-k͟hānān, promoted, 5, 37;
account of his death, 87;
d. married to S͟hāh-Jahān, 203

S͟hahriyār, s. J. marries Nūr Jahān’s daughter, 187;
gets present, 197;
promoted, 199, 202;
daughter born to, 276;
appointed to Qandahar expedition, 237

S͟hajāʿat K. ʿArab does homage, 8;
gifts, 80;
promoted, 155, 209;
death of, 297

S͟hālamār garden in Kashmīr, 151

S͟hankar Rāwat, death of, 18;
his son, 86

S͟hyām Singh, Raja of Garhwāl, 202

Sikandar Muʿīn, huntsman, 182

S͟hujaʿ s. S͟hāh-Jahān, illness, 45–46;
accident to, 151;
illness, 203

Sirhind, garden of, 113, 193, 220

Sixteenth year, 199

Snake, account of, 275, 297

Srīnagar, 141

Star (?), appearance of, 48

Subḥān Qulī, huntsman, put to death, 27–28

Suhrāb, s. M. Rustam, 39;
promoted, 68;
drowned, 132

Suk͟h Nāg waterfall, 157

Sult̤ān Ḥusain of Paklī, 125;
death of, 271

Sult̤ān Sikandar, his mosque, 142

Sundar (see Bikramājīt), serv. S͟hāh-Jahān, 185, 249;
death of, 256, 261

Sūraj Mal, s. Bāsū, 25;
misconduct, 54, 74, 75, 138

Sūraj Singh, death of, 99

Surjan Hāḍā of Ranthambūr, 58, 59

T

T̤ālib Āmalī, poet, 117, 118

T̤ālib (Bābā) Iṣpahānī, 118, 119 and note, 234

Tān Sen, singer, 71

Tāqī, serves S͟hāh-Jahān, 25, 56

Tāqī K͟hwāja, director of buildings, made diwan of Deccan and styled Mutaqīd K., 126

Tarbīyat K., s. Qāʿīm, death of, 86 and note (his real name was ʿAbdu-r-Raḥīm, and his sister, Ṣāliḥa Bānū, was married to J. and known as Pādis͟hāh Maḥall)

Tarkas͟h-bandān, 237 and note

Thirteenth year, 1

Tīmūr, portrait of, 116

Tulips, 144, 153

Tūsī-marg, 163

U

Ukna, a nest-hawk, 11

ʿUmar K͟hayyām, quatrain by, 62

Umīd Bak͟hs͟h, S͟hāh-Jahān’s son, 112

Ūrganj, 165

Ūrvasī, an ornament used in Deccan, 36

ʿUs̤mān Afghan plots Islām’s death, 27

Ustād (?), a poet, 44

Ustāds Kalyān and Pūran, engravers, 98–99

V

Vātrak River, 33 and note

Vedas, reformists, 108

Venetian sword, 114

Veth Tarwāh Festival, 168

Vīr-nāg, source of Jhelam, 142, 170, 173

W

Waisī K͟hwāja, agricultural authority, made Karorī of Sirhind in order to look after garden, 113

Wakils of ʿĀdil Bījāpūri, 36

Walī M., s. K͟h. Ḥasan Nags͟hbandī marries Prince Daniel’s daughter, 91;
promoted, 94;
appointed Deccan, 111

Waterfall at Ghāṭī Chānḍā, 57;
in Kashmīr, 178

Wazīr K., Parwīz’s dīwān, presents, 28;
elephants, 93;
made dīwān Bengal, 94;
death, 167

Wild ass, 201

Wolf story, 270

Wular Lake, 168

Y

Yaʿqūb Kas͟hmīrī, his battle with Rāja Bhagwān Dās, 132

Yūsuf, s. Ḥusain Tukrīya, sudden death of, 202

Yūsuf Beg a Badak͟hs͟hī, named Rustam, promoted, 275

Z

Zabardast K. promoted, 10;
gets elephant, 94;
promoted, 101;
made master of ceremonies, 196;
gets standard, 252

Z̤afar K., s. Zain K., death of, 229

Zāhid K., s. Shujāʿāt ʿArab, 194;
his letter, 273;
imprisoned by Mahābat and his son executed, 297

Z̤ahīru-d-dīn Mīr promoted and given a present, 236, 237 (he was descended from a saint and came from Persia)

Zambīl Beg, Persian, ambassador; Rs. 30,000 and dress sent to, 178, 186, 198, 201;
given a village yielding Rs. 16,000, 211;
bidden to wait in Lahore, 230

Zainu-l-ʿĀbidīn, s. Jaʿfir Āṣaf K. III. made Bak͟hs͟hī of aḥadīs, 159;
having been sent to summon S͟hāh Jahān reports that he stipulated to be allowed to stay in Māndū for the rainy season, 234

Zebra, account of 20

Zodiacal coinage, 7

Ẕū-l-faqār Turkmān promoted, 233;
killed, 280

Zū-l-Qarnain, Armenian, account of, 194