Shah Jahan

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  • Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd
  • Catalogue: 176531
  • Size: 16x24cm
Shah Jahan by Fergus Nicoll is the story of an enlightened despot, a king who dispensed largesse to favoured courtiers but ignored plague in the countryside. Khurram Shah Jahan, a title meaning 'King of the World', ruled the Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1659. His reign marked the cultural zenith of the Mughal dynasty: a period of multiculturalism, poetry, fine art and stupendous architecture. His legacy in stone embraces not only the Taj Mahal - the tomb to his beloved second wife Mumtaz - but also for the Pearl Mosque, the Red Fort, Jama Masid in Delhi, the Shalimar Gardens in Kashmir and the priceless Peacock Throne.

But Shah Jahan was also a ruthless political operator, who only achieved power after ordering the murder of two brothers and at least six other relatives, one of them the legitimately crowned Emperor Dawar- Bakhsh. Fergus Nicoll travelled widely through India and Pakistan to follow in Shah Jahan's footsteps and find new evidence of his passing. As a result, many aspects of the conventional wisdom have had to be re-examined.

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