Her aunt was the Empress Nur Jahan and is thought to have played the matchmaker in arranging the marriage.īut for some reason, the Prince was not married to Arjumand Banu Begum for five years, which was an unusually long engagement for the time. The young girl belonged to an illustrious Persian noble family which had been serving Mughal Emperors since the reign of Akbar, the family’s patriarch was Itimad-ud-Daulah, who had been Emperor Jahangir‘s finance minister and his son Asaf Khan – Arjumand Banu’s father – played an important role in the Mughal court, eventually serving as Chief Minister. In 1607, Prince Khurram was engaged to Arjumand Banu Begum – when they were 15 and 14 years old, respectively. Five years and a wife later (in those days princes did not marry for love alone) the regal 20-yr-old went to wed his 19-yr-old bride.”( ) The story goes back in 1607, when a prince of the royal Mughal household strolled down the Meena Bazaar, accompanied by a string of fawning courtiers, he caught a glimpse of a girl hawking silk and glass beads. The match got solemnized after five years i.e., in the year 1612.( ) After meeting her, Shah Jahan went back to his father and declared that he wanted to marry her. At that time, he was 14 years old and she, a Muslim Persian princess, was 15. It was love at first sight and the girl was Mumtaz Mahal, who was known as Arjumand Banu Begum at that time. In 1607 when strolling down the Meena Bazaar, accompanied by a string of fawning courtiers, Shah Jahan caught a glimpse of a girl hawking silk and glass beads. He was the son of Jehangir, the fourth Mughal emperor of India and the grandson of Akbar the Great.
“Shah Jahan, initially named Prince Khurram, was born in the year 1592. Let’s look at the story of Shah jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. It is as true as the Love story of Ambikapathy and Amaravathy in Tamil lore.īoth have no historical references except in poetic works.Īs Shakespeare took the germ of an idea for his famous Dramatic works,from Plutarch’s Lives,people have taken fancy to some ideas and developed an interesting story the difference being that Shakespeare’s works had some facts as basis, while these have none. Nobody knows who started this fairy tale of a Love Story between Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal.
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