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 defeated, but ultimately succeeded his father as Emperor in 1605.

Jahangir built on his father's foundations of excellent administration, and his reign was characterized by political stability, a strong economy and impressive cultural achievments.

The only major reversal to the expansion came in 1622 when Shahanshah Abbas, the Safavid Emperor of Persia, captured Kandahar while Jahangir was battling his rebellious son, Khurram in Hindustan.

Jahangir was fascinated with art, science and, architecture.

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

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.

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

Jahangir was not without his vices.

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

As with the insurrection of his eldest son Khusraw, Jahangir was able to defeat the challenge from within his family and retain power.

" The chain was set up as a link between his people and Jahangir himself.

Standing outside the castle of Agra with sixty bells, anyone was capable of pulling the chain and having a personal hearing from Jahangir himself.

Sovereignty, according to Jahangir, was a " gift of God " not necessarily given to enforce God's law but rather to " ensure the contentment of the world.

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.

Furthermore, Abbas had, for many years, been trying to recover the city of Kandahar, which Jahangir was not keen to part with, especially to this king whom he did not particularly care for, despite seeing him as an equal.

In this state, Jahangir was also open to the influence of his wives, a weakness exploited by many.

She was witty, intelligent and beautiful, which was what attracted Jahangir to her.

Jahangir was rumored to have had a hand in the death of her husband.

After subduing and executing nearly 2000 members of the rebellion, and blinding his renegade son Khusraw, Jahangir had Arjun Dev executed, causing a permanent deterioration of relations between the imperium and the Sikhs.

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.

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

In 1622, Jahangir would send his son Prince Khurram against the combined forces of Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda.

The son of a Hindu Rajput mother who converted to Islam, Jahangir made the precepts of Sunni Islam the cornerstone of his state policies.

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 ".

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.

* Akbar founds Fatehpur Sikri to honor the Muslim holy man Shaikh Salim Chisti, who has foretold the birth of Akbar's son and heir, Jahangir.

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.

Amid mounting tensions within his district between his faction and his rival Syed Afzal Ali Gillani, his son Khurram Jahangir Wattoo was elected the Nazim of the populous tehsil of Dipalpur.

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.

He then deposed his former master, the Naqshbandi shaykh Buzurg Khan ( Busurg Khan ) ( the only survived son of Jahangir Khoja ) of the White Mountain, in 1867, and declared that he was the Amir.

One of Akbar Shah's queens, Mumtaz Begum, had been pressuring him to declare her son Mirza Jahangir as his successor.

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.

* Prince Khusrau Mirza ( Khusraw ) lived 1587 – 1622, son of Mughal emperor Jahangir

In 1601, Mughal emperor Akbar annexed the Khandesh sultanate and Burhanpur became tha capital of Khandesh Subah of the Mughal empire. In 1609 Jahangir appointed his second son Parvez to the governorship of the Mughal provinces of the Deccan, and the prince chose Burhanpur as his headquarters.

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

During the rule of Shah Jahan, the Emperor of India in the 17th century, Rajamata Karanwati of Garhwal, the mother and regent of her minor son, Prithiviraj Shah, humiliated Emperor Jahangir by not only defeating his forces but also returning the survivors with their noses lopped off.

* 1440: Hamza is overthrown by Jahangir, a son of Ali Beg.

* 1453: Jahangir dies and is succeeded by his son, Uzun Hassan.

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.

Abu ' l Fazl's son Shaikh Abdur Rahman Afzal Khan ( December 29, 1571 – 1613 ) was later appointed governor of Bihar in 1608 by Jahangir.