RBSI - Jahanara - The unsung Mughal princess By Safia Siddiqui Very little is known about Princess Jahanara, despite her playing an important role during Shah Jahan's rule and as one of the wealthiest women

Book Review: A princess with taste By Mohsin Maqbool Elahi THE story behind the book, The Life of a Mogul Princess: Jahanara Begum (daughter of Shahjahan), is in itself interesting. Andrea Butenschon found a unique handwritten copy in Persian of Jahanara’s book by accident. While she was visiting the Jasmine Tower of the Agra Fort, the manuscript fell into her hands from behind a marble slab which was on the verge of breaking. She translated the manuscript into English and the book was finally published in 1931, almost 300 years after Jahanara had written it. Read more : http://archives.dawn.com/weekly/books/archive/040718/books12.htm The Life of a Mogul Princess: Jahanara Begum (daughter of Shahjahan) By Andrea Butenschon Sang-e-Meel Publications, 25 Shahrah-i-Pakistan, Lahore

Jahanara, Princess of Princesses By Kathryn Lasky Read book online : http://books.google.co.in/books?id=JkGoaOy5-EkC&lpg=PA126&ots=S03F4nzLjM&dq=jahanara%20dawn&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

I thought that she is one of the most written about. There was a best seller too. We have to understand that no daughter of the emperor was allowed to marry. Their lives were therefore in background. It's after Akbar that you get to hear of them and when sons were fighting and killing one another where was the chance for the daughters. Jahanara managed a love story, treated as a slave by her sister, arrested with her father and other stories not in line with current morals colourful yes, powerful yes, not written about ???

@jahanara was not neutral she was in dara shikohs camp and thus paid the price when aurangzeb won the battle of succession.

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