Briefly explain why nur Jahan was the cultural metaphor of the age?
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Nur Jahan was born Mehr-un-Nissa, the daughter of a Grand Vizier who served under Akbar. Nur Jahan, meaning 'Light of the World', was married at age 17 to a Persian soldier Sher Afgan, governor of Bihar, an important Mughal province. She was a married woman when Prince Salim, Akbar's eldest son, fell in love with her. Two years after Akbar died and Salim became Emperor, Sher Afgan met his death. However, three more years were to pass before a grieving Nur Jahan consented to marrying the Emperor Jahangir. Although Jahangir was deeply in love with Nur Jahan, their actual story bears no resemblance to the entirely fictional legend of Anarkali, a low-born dancing girl who, according to popular folklore and film-lore, had a tragic and doomed love affair with Jahangir. In fact, the relationship between Jahangir and Nur Jahan was even more scandalous in its time than the legend of Anarkali, for Nur Jahan was a widowed woman when the Emperor fell in love with her.
Answer:Nur Jahan was the only Mughal empress who had coins minted with her name on them. She also saved her husband Jehangir from the clutches of rebel leader Mabahat Khan.
New Delhi: Nur Jahan, the twentieth wife of Mughal emperor Jehangir, was a woman of remarkable strength and courage. She wielded such great power that she often presided the court alongside Jehangir and took part in matters of the state.
Early life
Born as Mehr-un-Nissa to a Persian noble family on 31 May, 1577 in Kandahar in present-day Afghanistan, Nur was the fourth child of Mirza Ghias Beg and Asmat Begam. Author Indu Sundaresan, in her book The Twentieth Wife, describes her as a child with captivating beauty:
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