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The Sentimental Mughal:Jahangir
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From Bamber Gascoigne's 'The Great Moghuls pg 178, pg 155':
[On Jahangir]:
For the most part, he was unusually mild and he is described in European accounts as 'gentle, soft of disposition' or 'gentle and debonair'...And he is certainly the warmest, the most emotional of the Great Moghuls; his responses to the death of one grandchild and to the miraculous escape from a high fall of another would rank as touching passages in any diary; and if his feelings at times spilled over into the rankest sentimentality, as in the vast drinking tank for animals built at Sheikhupura in memory of a favourite deer, we can at least enjoy the resulting architecture...
After a leisurely journey of four months the camp reached the huge hill fortress of Mandu...he[Jahangir] took great pleasure in kicking the tomb of a Mandu ruler, Nasir-ud-din, who had been so brutal as to kill his own father, and then as his indignation increased at such a thought the emperor decided to go further and he had the wretch's body dug up and thrown into the river.
For the most part, he was unusually mild and he is described in European accounts as 'gentle, soft of disposition' or 'gentle and debonair'...And he is certainly the warmest, the most emotional of the Great Moghuls; his responses to the death of one grandchild and to the miraculous escape from a high fall of another would rank as touching passages in any diary; and if his feelings at times spilled over into the rankest sentimentality, as in the vast drinking tank for animals built at Sheikhupura in memory of a favourite deer, we can at least enjoy the resulting architecture...
After a leisurely journey of four months the camp reached the huge hill fortress of Mandu...he[Jahangir] took great pleasure in kicking the tomb of a Mandu ruler, Nasir-ud-din, who had been so brutal as to kill his own father, and then as his indignation increased at such a thought the emperor decided to go further and he had the wretch's body dug up and thrown into the river.
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