I did not think I would see it. During her colonial internment, Zinat Mahal, the last dowager empress of Mughal India, posed for the camera in 1872. The only photograph of Zinat Mahal known widely ...

Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. By Ruby Lal. W.W. Norton & Company; 336 pages; $27.95 and £19.99. THAT India’s Mughal ... Nur was Jahangir’s 20th and last wife (by his own ...

With the 100th anniversary of the death of the first empress of India (saving Raziya) falling on Monday, it is apposite to recall that the self-created title's last holder is alive and well enough for ...

it is worthwhile to reflect on the last time that a diamond jubilee was celebrated. That was in 1897, when the aged monarch, Victoria, was also the Kaiser-e-Hind, the Empress of India ...