Role of mughal women in architecture and commerce
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Mughal emperors are well known for their contribution to architecture; everyone knows of Akbar’s Fatehpur Sikri and Shah Jahan’s Taj Mahal. But very few people realize the influence that Mughal women had within the sphere of architecture during their lives. It can be primarily observed to begin with Humayun’s wife, Haji Begum, who built the gorgeous tomb for her husband at Delhi. She also built several sarais and rest houses for travellers. There are many accounts of foreign travellers to India who note the numerous architectural activities carried out by the royal women. Sarais, step wells (baolis) and gardens were built by several Mughal royal ladies and are sometimes documented by the emperors too; Jahangir writes of how he walked through a garden made by his father’s grandmother, and then through one made by his own grandmother and another by an aunt of Babur.
Empress Nur Jahan, wife of Jahangir is also known to have sanctioned several well-built structures throughout the kingdom. Her most meticulously designed structure was the tomb of her father, It’mad-ud-Daulah, in which we can see a combination of red sandstone and marble, which in a way symbolizes a transition from Akbar and Jahangir’s love for the red sandstone and Shah Jahan’s fondness for pure white marble. Coming to Shah Jahan’s daughters, Jahanara was known to have good taste in architecture, and she built several mosques, at Agra and at Delhi, and many sarais as well.
Roshanara Begum, Shah Jahan’s second daughter, is best known for the building of her garden Roshanara Bagh in Delhi. Her tomb lies in the middle of the garden, which is itself laid out according to the pattern in which Paradise (jannat) is believed to be laid out (the same layout was used by Shah Jahan while laying out the Taj Mahal). Darwesh held it’s theatre walk ‘Shah Jahan’s Daughters’ at the Roshanara Bagh.