Jahangir is most famous for his golden " chain of justice.

" 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.

J. F. Richards argues that " Jahangir seems to have been persistently hostile to popularly venerated religious figures ,” which is debatable.

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

" 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.

It is possible that Jahangir might have seen these images in their Islamic persona, as the Qur ' an features such creatures, yet depiction of living things was haraam ( forbidden ), so the images could well have been created by a Christian artist.

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.

Jahangir himself is far from modest in his autobiography when he states his prowess at being able to determine the artist of any portrait by simply looking at a painting.

is: Jahangir

It is said to be by the blessing of Shaykh Salim Chishti that Akbar's first surviving child, the future Jahangir, was born.

Another Mughal ruler, the emperor Jahangir, is said to have ordered a huge number of criminals to be crushed for his amusement.

A famous example of the charbagh style of Mughal garden is the Shalimar Gardens in Lahore, where the domeless Tomb of Jahangir is also located.

The burial places of the Emperors illustrate their expanding empire, as the first Emperor Babur, born in Uzbekistan is buried in Afghanistan, his sons and grandsons, namely Akbar the Great and Jahangir in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively and later descendants, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb in Hindustan.

This explanation is mentioned by the Emperor Jahangir in his autobiography Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri or Memoirs of Jahangir.

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

As it is, there were 52 Hindu kings in the Gwalior prison at that moment, the policies of Jahangir against the local majority people were oppressive in nature.

Jahangir Nagar () is the former name of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The city is split into different sectors: Anekbah, Qualisar, Jaunpur, Jahangir and Lahoreh.

On its western bank is the town of Shahdara Bagh with the tomb of Jahangir and the Tomb of Noor Jahan.

Jahangir Khan, HI, ( born 10 December 1963, in Karachi, Pakistan ) ( sometimes spelled " Jehangir Khan ") is a former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan, who is considered by many to be the greatest player in the history of the game.

Jahangir considered his third son Prince Khurram ( future Shah Jahan-born 1592 of Hindu Rajput princess Manmati ), his favourite.

Mohammad-Ali Shah considered them among the most dangerous of his enemies and had them both killed in 1908, as he did the editor of Sur-e Esrafil, Mirza Jahangir Khan, also of Bábí background.

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.

" At this time, one of those disciples happened to be the current English ambassador, though his initiation into Jahangir's inner circle of disciples was devoid of religious significance for Roe, as he did not understand the full extent of what he was doing: Jahangir hung " a picture of him self set in gold hanging at a wire gold chain ” round Roe's neck.

With Jahangir himself occasionally taking part in Hindu ceremonies, the aforementioned example was probably one way of showing support for the idea that Muslim and Hindus should not mix their rituals.

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.

As a sign of surrender the Emperor handed over his arms, which included two magnificent swords, one with the name ‘ Nadir Shah ’ and the other with the seal of Jahangir engraved upon it, which Hodson intended to present to Queen Victoria.

His forces were defeated within one month, decisive battle occurred on the shore of Tuman river north of Kashgar where Jahangir was defeated.

He was one of the Jesuits attached to the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and was head of the Jesuit mission in Agra.

With his domination of both the softball and hardball versions of the game, Jahangir truly cemented his reputation as the world's greatest squash player.

In 1617 the British East India Company was given permission by Mughal Emperor Jahangir to trade in India.

Salim Nuruddin Jahangir ( 20 September 1569 – 8 November 1627 ) was the fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 until his death in 1627.

Jahangir was the eldest son of Mughal Emperor Akbar and was declared successor to his father from an early age.

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

Sir Thomas Roe, England's first ambassador to the Mughal court, went as far as labelling Jahangir, who was sympathetic to Christianity, an atheist.

Mughal Emperor Jahangir, on an Elephant Howdah.

Much like his father, Jahangir was dedicated to the expansion of Mughal held territory through conquest.

Furthermore, Jahangir preserved the Mughal tradition of having a highly centralized form of government.

In the year 1623, the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, sent his Tahwildar, Khan Alam to Safavid Persia, accompanied by 800 Sepoys, scribes and scholars along with 10 Howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, in order to negotiate peace with Abbas I of Persia after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar.

The victorious Jahangir Only 16 years of age, ordered the completion of the Jahangir Mahal a famous Mughal citadel in Orchha to commemorate and honor his victory.

The Mughal Emperor Jahangir, ordered the apprehension of all Portuguese within the Mughal Empire, he further confiscated churches that belonged to the Jesuits.

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

When drunk, Jahangir swore to Sir Thomas Roe, England's first ambassador to the Mughal court, that he would protect all the peoples of the book.

But relations between them did turn tense in the year 1617 when Sir Thomas Roe the Elizabethan diplomat warned the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince Shah Jahan, the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out of the province, " then he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas ".

A manuscript depicting the Mughal Emperor Jahangir and the Safavid Shah Abbas I of Persia | Abbas I ; and the qualities of Mughal Empire | Mughal-Safavid Relations.

Wherever it came from, and whatever it represented, it was clear that a European style had come to influence Mughal art, otherwise the slave would not have claimed it as his own design, nor would he have been believed by Jahangir.

A rare life-size portrait of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir holding a globe, by Abu ' l Hasan, Nadir al-Zaman ( dated 1617 AD )

In the year 1626, the Mughal Emperor Jahangir began to contemplate an alliance between the Ottomans, Mughals and Uzbeks against the Safavids, who had defeated the Mughals at Kandahar.

He was the fifth Mughal emperor after Babur, Humayun, Akbar, and Jahangir.