Jahangir

I want to give an example of the fragrances or the idea of making fragrances which continued right from ancient to medieval period.

The wife of Jahangir, Noor Jahan, and her mother brought in or highlighted the rose itra, or atar as it is called.

There are various atarwalas all over the place.

Ataris, as they are also called.

They did not want to deal with the Mughal Empire during his reign.

And so there has been a vacuum, in a sense, which I think, you know, to some degree, my book is hopefully just a very small kind of opening to future scholars to think about the hundreds, myriads of questions that are out there for the period that we have asked for, you know, around Akbar and Akbar's reign and Jahangir and even Shah Jahan.

But we have just not gone down the Aurangzeb route yet.

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That's nice of you to say that.

You know, I have to say, you know, it's interesting because I had a sense, if you had asked me a question, who among all the Mughal emperors is your favorite emperor? You know, I mean, my default would have been Akbar.

Then I would have probably said Jahangir.

And so Aurangzeb was not a natural character for me to explore as a scholar.

No, no, no, that's not it.

Jahangir says they aren't paying it all themselves.

They're only paying a third if Google and Microsoft pay a third each.

Not what's happening.

in the last century, because of his immense fortune and success in trade.

Mr. Readymoney, or Sir Jehangir, as he is commonly known, the present head of the house, was accompanied by his wife, two daughters, their governess, and his son, who had been spending several months in London, where he had been the object of much gratifying attention.

His father received his title as an acknowledgment of his generosity in presenting two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the indian institute in london and for other public benefactions estimated at one million three hundred thousand dollars he built colleges hospitals insane asylums and other institutions he founded a stranger's home at bombay for the refuge of people of respectability who find themselves destitute or friendless or become ill in that city he erected drinking fountains of artistic architecture at several convenient places in bombay and gave enormous sums to various charities in london and elsewhere without respect to race or creed both the roman catholic and the presbyterian missions in india have been the recipients of large gifts and the university at bombay owes him for its finest building several of the most prominent native families in india have followed the example of Mr. Redimani by adopting the nicknames that were given their ancestors.

Indian names are difficult to pronounce.

The old man gave him an allowance of $10,000 a year, and he has since lived in London, consoling himself with cricket.

Another distinguished passenger was Sir Kawashi Jehangir Redimoney, an Indian baronet, who inherited immense wealth from a long line of Parsi bankers.

They have adopted as a sort of trademark a nickname given by some wag to the founder of the family in the last century because of his immense fortune and success in trade.

Mr. Redimoney, or Sir Jehangir, as he is commonly known, the present head of the house, was accompanied by his wife, two daughters, their governess, and his son, who had been spending several months in London, where he had been the object of much gratifying attention.

His father received his title as an acknowledgment of his generosity in presenting $250,000 to the Indian Institute in London and for other public benefactions, estimated at $1,300,000.

He built colleges, hospitals, insane asylums, and other institutions.

Now, see, for me, if Winston Churchill is a criminal who should be condemned and not celebrated, you shouldn't be celebrating Shah Jahan either.

The same thing happens under Jahangir, his father, or Aurangzeb, his son.

Uh, the son was a complete psycho, by the way.

Uh, but the left never wants you to do that.

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[laughs] Like Parsi, Jehangir.

But if he didn't have his honeymoon on a bullock cart, he would be Bhel.

Bhel.