The world's first seamless celestial globe was built by Mughal scientists under the patronage of Jahangir.

He also demonstrated a precocious talent for building, impressing his father Jahangir at the age of 16 when he built his quarters within his great grandfather the Mughal Emperor Babur's Kabul fort and redesigned buildings within Agra fort.

Sheesh Mahal is located within the Shah Burj ( King's Pavilion ) block that was actually built by his predecessor Jahangir.

Some of the other significant buildings of Lahore built during the Mughal rule are Jahangir ’ s Quadrangle, Maktab Khana, Khilwat Khana, Picture Wall, Kala Burj and Hathi Paer.

Another period structure is Barapula, a bridge with 12 piers and 11 arched openings, built in 1621 by Mihr Banu Agha, the chief eunuch of Jahangir ’ s court.

Jahangir also built the Shalimar Gardens and its accompanying pavilions on the shore of Dal Lake in Kashmir.

Jahan also built the Tomb of Jahangir and sections of the Lahore Fort that include the Moti Masjid, Sheesh Mahal, and Naulakha pavilion which are all enclosed in the fort.

Scenic views of the lake can be witnessed from the shore line Mughal gardens, such as Shalimar Bagh and Nishat Bagh built during the reign of Mughal Emperor Jahangir ) and from houseboats cruising along the lake in the colourful shikaras.

The great temple of Keshava Rai at Mathura was built by Bir Singh Deo Bundela during Jahangir ’ s time at a cost of thirty-three lakhs of rupees.

In 1615 – 16, the Mughal emperor Jahangir ( 1569 – 1627 ) built his hunting lodge ( seen now in total ruins ) on the shores of the Pushkar Lake to celebrate his victory over the local Rajput Rana ( king ).

Jahangir receives Prince Khurram at Ajmer on his return from the Mewar campaign

The painter Ustad Mansur became one of the best artists to document the animals and plants which Jahangir either encountered on his military exhibitions or received as donations from emissaries of other countries.

Jahangir specifically warned his nobles that they " should not force Islam on anyone .” Jizya was not imposed by Jahangir.

Jahangir soon after had to fend off his son, Prince Khusrau Mirza, when he attempted to claim the throne based on Akbar's will to become his next heir.

Mughal Emperor Jahangir, on an Elephant Howdah.

Jahangir would challenge the hegemonic claim over Afghanistan by the Safavid rulers with an eye on Kabul, Peshawar and Kandahar which were important centers of the central Asian trade system that northern India operated within.

Thus Jahangir was able to deliver justice to people in accordance of their beliefs, and also keep his hold on empire by unified criminal law.

Jahangir receives Prince Khurram on his return from the Deccan ( 10 October 1617 )

Jahangir died on the way back from Kashmir near Sarai Saadabad in 1627.

While Sunni Islam was the state religion, there was not widespread pressure to convert ; indeed, Jahangir specifically warned his nobles that they " should not force Islam on anyone .” In the first century of Islamic expansion this attitude was taken partially because of concerns that an absence of non-Muslims would deprive the state of a valuable source of revenue.

" Brahmins on the banks of the Ganges received gifts from the emperor, while following a meeting with Jadrup, a Hindu ascetic, Jahangir felt compelled to comment that " association with him is a great privilege.

In a book written on statecraft for Jahangir, the author advised him to direct " all his energies to understanding the counsel of the sages and to comprehending the intimations of the ' ulama.

Even until the mid-nineteenth century zoologists were unaware of the gestation period of elephants but Jahangir on the other hand had accurately estimated the gestation period of elephants to be 18 to 19 months in the early-seventeenth century itself.

They include Arundhati Roy who says " Each of us needs a little RAWA "; Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, who suggests that RAWA must stand as a model for every group working to end violence ; Katha Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture ; Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Jihad ; and Asma Jahangir, Special Rapporteur of the UN and prominent women's rights activist of Pakistan are two Pakistanis who write about RAWA and express their support.

Baadshah Shah Jahan was born as Prince Shihab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram, on January 5 ( Julian ), 1592 in Lahore, Pakistan as the third and favourite son of the emperor Jahangir from his Rajput wife Gossaini.

The 5th Guru Arjan Dev was martyred by the Mughal ruler Jahangir on 16 May 1606 for refusing to convert to Islam.

* Jahangir grants a British mission important commercial concessions at Surat on the west coast of India.

The letter was brought to the attention of the international community by Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, in a March 20, 2006 press release.

For example, the Mughal emperor Jahangir made his rebellious son Prince Khusrau Mirza ride an elephant down a street lined with stakes on which the rebellious prince's supporters had been impaled alive.

It gained a foothold in India in 1612 after Mughal emperor Jahangir granted it the rights to establish a factory, or trading post, in the port of Surat on the western coast.

Jahangir receives Prince Khurram on his return from the Deccan ( 10 October 1617 )

Both Akbar and Jahangir visited Kol on hunting expeditions.

Jahangir, like his father, was not a strict Sunni Muslim ; he allowed, for example, the continuation of his father's tradition of public debate between different religions.

Among his other constructions are the Red Fort also called the Delhi Fort or Lal Qila in Urdu, large sections of Agra Fort, the Jama Masjid, the Wazir Khan Mosque, the Moti Masjid, the Shalimar Gardens, sections of the Lahore Fort, the Jahangir mausoleum — his father's tomb, the construction of which was overseen by his stepmother Nur Jahan and the Shahjahan Mosque.

Shah Jahan was also chosen by his father Jahangir to acknowledge the statesmanship and administration in the Mughal Empire.

Salim ascended to the throne with the title of Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir Badshah Ghazi, and thus began his 22-year reign at the age of 36.

An aesthete, Jahangir decided to start his reign with a grand display of " Justice ", as he saw it.

A well decorated manuscript of the Quran, made during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

" Jahangir ordered his execution, but it is unlikely that he also ordered Guru Arjun to be tortured and converted, for two reasons ; one, because we have no other examples from Jahangir's generally tolerant reign to support the idea that he forced people to convert to Islam, and two, because Jahangir makes no note of Guru Arjun's torture, yet cheerfully describes the torture of two other rebels, as well as Guru Arjun's execution.

Hawkins dryly commented that Jahangir made his nephews Christian " not for any zeal he had to Christianity, as the Fathers, and all Christians thought ; but upon the prophecies of certain learned Gentiles, who told him that the sons of his should be disinherited, and the children of his brother should reign.

Muhammad Salih Tahtawi of Sindh headed the task of creating a massive, seamless celestial globe using a secret wax casting method in the Mughal Empire, the famous celestial globe of Muhammad Salih Tahtawi is inscribed with Arabic and Persian language | Persian inscriptions and was completed in the year 1631 during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

* November 3 – Jahangir begins his 22-year reign of the Mughal Empire.

Manuscripts of the Shahnameh were composed during the reign of Babur, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Muhammad Shah.

Other striking features of the tomb are white marble serpentine brackets, which support sloping eaves around the parapet. On the left of the tomb, to the east, stands a red sandstone tomb of Islam Khan I, son of Shaikh Badruddin Chisti and grandson of Shaikh Salim Chishti, who became a general in the Mughal army in the reign of Jahangir.

Mumtaz was portrayed as the perfect wife with no aspirations to political power in contrast to her aunt, Empress Nur Jehan, the wife of 4th Emperor, Jahangir who had wielded considerable influence in the previous reign.

Prince Salim ( b. 1569 son of a Hindu Rajput princess from Amber ), who would later be known as Emperor Jahangir showed signs of restlessness towards the end of the long reign of his father Akbar.

Although the early Mughal emperors had peaceful relations with the Sikh Gurus, the Sikhs started facing religious persecution during the reign of Jahangir.

But during the reign of Jahangir, he created his masterpieces.

Emperor Jahangir ( reign 1605-1627 ) weighing his son Shah Jahan on a weighing scale by artist Manohar ( AD 1615, Mughal dynasty, India ).

The spring, which was originally shaped in a circular form was given a change of shape during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1620, when he gave orders to renovate the spring in the Mughal traditional shape of an octagon.

Subsequently, during the reign of King James I, Sir William Hawkins and Sir Thomas Roe were sent to negotiate with the Mughal Emperor Jahangir for permission to establish trading factories in India on behalf of the Company.

Fahim, who not only grew up with his son, but later also died alongside one of Rahim's own sons, Feroze khan, while fighting against the rebellion of Mughal general Mahabat Khan in 1625 / 26, during the reign of Jahangir.

It is, however, certain that in the Mughal period, most likely during the reign of either Emperor Akbar ( 1556 – 1605 ) or Emperor Jahangir ( 1605 – 1627 ), the figured or flowered muslin came to be known as the jamdani.

During the reign of Jahangir, Raja Veer Singh Bundela of Orchha constructed another temple about 75 m ( 250 ft ) high at the cost of Rs 3. 3 million.

During the reign of Emperor Jahangir ( 1605 to 1627 ), Sheikhupura had the status of royal hunting ground.

Jahangir ( 1605 – 27 ) had an artistic inclination and during his reign Mughal painting developed further.