The Diary- 6
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I had put the commander's head chest on the table, and the torso coffin was in a separate room, the room just opposite the doctor.
The crew members also took some rest in their rooms.
At about nine o'clock the headman made arrangements for the food, after a long time the food of the house was found and it was very tasty.
After dinner we all went to our respective rooms.
I ate my full stomach and lay on the bed as soon as I entered the room.
I fell asleep due to fatigue.
"Where have you been…..tonight is the doctor's tamaam.. In the name of the queen, now it will come or it will be morning", the commander raised his torso again.
I woke up hearing the commander's voice.
After drinking a glass of water, I told him "Aa, at last you came, me lord... now tell the rest of the story, highness".
"O! The professor wants to hear the story... Stole the British government's treasure together with the doctor, now by hearing the story wants to clear his hands on Kohinoor, heard you have a cheater in this team but you don't care about him", said the commander.
Oh, I'll find out if you just tell the story", I told the commander.
"Well, it tells, listen, Arjumand was born on April 27, 1593. He was very beautiful. Bala's beauty. It is said that Shah Jahan first saw Arjumand in a street of Meena Bazaar in Agra.
Seeing her immense beauty Shah Jahan fell in love with her at first sight.
There was no wall in the marriage of Shah Jahan and Arjumand, so 14-year-old Arjumand and 15-year-old Khurram (Shah Jahan's initial name) got engaged, this is in the year 1607.
Then on May 10, 1612, after about five years and three months of engagement, both of them were married.
Shah Jahan was 20 years and three months old at the time of marriage.
Arjumand was 19 years and one month old.
Children's and people's of that time knew the story of both of them.
Shah Jahan was also known as a lover and the Taj Mahal is proof of this.
When Arjumand and Khurram got engaged, Khurram did not have a single marriage.
But between the engagement and marriage, Khurram got married to a Persian princess, Quandri Begum.
It was a relationship made for political reasons.
Even after marrying Arjumand, he did another marriage.
Shah Jahan used to love Arjumand Bano Begum the most beautiful one among his three wives.
Mehrunnisa was the aunt of Arjumand i.e. Mumtaz.
Who was married to Shah Jahan's father Jahangir and later on his name 'Nur Jahan' became famous.
There was so much love between Mumtaz and Shah Jahan that people say " no one had seen such love between husband and wife."
Both had 13 children.
The number three child was Dara Shikoh.
And Aurangzeb was born at number six.
The year was 1631 and the month was June.
Shah Jahan was in Burhanpur with his army.
Jahan was climbing on Lodi.
Mumtaz was also with Shah Jahan.
It was here that Mumtaz died while giving birth to her 14th child after nearly 30 hours of labor pain.
Mumtaz's doctor Wazir Khan and her maid Sati-un-Nissa tried hard but could not save Mumtaz.
In the grief of Mumtaz's death, Shah Jahan declared mourning throughout his empire.
Mumtaz's death was celebrated for two years throughout the Mughal Empire.
It is said that when Mumtaz was in Agra, she often used to visit a garden on the banks of Yamuna.
Perhaps for this reason, when Shah Jahan thought of building a masterpiece in the memory of Mumtaz, he decided to decide the bank of the Yamuna.
Mumtaz was pregnant almost every year till the age of 38-39.
Mumtaz's children are mentioned in Shahjahanama.
1. March 1613: Princess Hurl-i-Nisa
2. April 1614: Princess Jahanara
3. March 1615: Dara Shikoh
4. July 1616: Shah Shuja
5. September 1617: Princess Roshanara
6. November 1618: Aurangzeb
7. December 1619: Bacha Umaid Baksh
8. June 1621: Suraiya Bano
9. 1622: Prince, who died soon after
10. September 1624: Murad Baksh
11. November 1626: Luftllah
12. May 1628: Daulat Afza
13. April 1630: Hussainara
14. June 1631: Gauharara
It is not that just Mumtaz has died.
Many children also died from her .
The first daughter passed away at the age of three.
Umaid Bakhsh also died in three years.
Suraiya Bano passed away in seven years.
Luft Allah also passed away in two years.
Daulat Afza was a year old and Husnara was not even a year old when he died.
That is, six out of 14 did not.
In the part of history where Shah Jahan and Mumtaz happened, there was no word of family planning.
Nor was there any such practice.
Family planning is a very modern concept.
Then people used to think that children are the gift of the above.
Whatever happens, let it happen.
Girls used to get married at an early age.
It is not that in India only women used to die to have children, but it was the same in Europe.Until our Highness arranged a separate team in hospitals and other government offices, consisting of new doctors and nurses, to educate them all about this, their work would go from place to place to tell everyone "We two, our's two or we two our's one" meant to explain.
This plan of the British Government was very successful, especially in European countries, people quickly understood that if no one has come in front of anyone till date, then it is India, China, Pakistan and the countries of Asia, in which India was at the top.
And it is still there, after all, it was the country that gave the knowledge of Kamasutra, and because of this knowledge, first the Mughal then followed him to the whole world, in the name of the Queen", the commander said his words and I started smiling after listening to him.
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I said to the commander "Stop pulling our legs, my lord, tell the story".
"The fun of storytelling is not when only certain parts of the story are told, the fun of storytelling is when everything is told in detail", said the commander.
"Now the construction work of the Taj Mahal started in 1630. The work of construction of the Taj Mahal lasted for about 22 years. About 20 thousand laborers contributed in its construction. Whose hand was cut off by Aurangzeb but history blames it on Shah Jahan.
But it happened that after the construction of the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan wanted to build another Taj just in front of it, which he was going to name the Black Taj.
The work of building the Taj Mahal was going on that at the same time our posting took place in India, we took over the post of Agra with our senior officer, our senior officer and we started sitting in Shah Jahan's court.
Within a few days, I became one of Aurangzeb's special people, due to which he started telling me all about his heart, started believing in us.
In those days, a lot of news of looting started coming from the areas around Agra.
A robber who robbed not only the royal family but also the government goods of all the countries who came to trade.
That robber had chosen his prey and his target was a foreign country who had come to do all the business with the Mughal dynasty .
Discussions of his intelligence and strength were happening from place to place.
His target was especially the royal family of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb's army had been defeated many times by him.
A war that is fought with armies can be won by skilful guidance, but a war that is fought in secret is difficult to win.
Something similar was happening in many states of India and the person fighting it kept himself anonymous.
Seeing this, many royal families of India started getting deceived, their treasury started emptying which he used to show with great pride.
In this connection, once our officer was called to the court of Emperor Shah Jahan.
We reached there with our senior.
There was a discussion about the same looter in the court.
The emperor for the first time allowed the British to build the first police post in the cities of each state and its task was to make informers from the common people of the city and collect news in different states and punish the guilty in British East India.
The company was to be helped, the emperor had put a condition that if the British East India Company was successful in this, then officially it would be given the right of these posts, or else they would have the right of the emperor's soldiers.
Aurangzeb was also troubled by the same thing, the Taj Mahal was the most expensive building in the world and the most grand of that time.
Shah Jahan's passion for building buildings had almost halved the precious treasure.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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