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1.Was Mumtaz a bead seller or a Persian Princess or a Daughter of a Noble Man?

2.Where is much celebrated Love angle where it is indicated that Shah Jahan's Father, Jahangir opposed this and the lovers were married amidst a lot of trials and tribulations?

3.The name Mumtaz is a Nom de plume., meaning 'pride of

4.Shah Jahan was engaged to Mumtaz for 4 years, a very long period of waiting in Muslim tradition and in the meanwhile married a Rajput Princess.

5.He was engaged to Mumtaz at the age of 15 , when Mumtaz was 14!

6..Shah Jahan had three wives.

Arjumand Banu Begum aka Mumtaz Mahal
Akbarabadi Mahal
Kandahari Mahal .
Number of concubines.

Like all his ancestors, Shah Jahan's court included many wives, concubines, and dancing girls. Several European chroniclers noted this. Niccolao Manucci wrote that "it would seem as if the only thing Shahjahan cared for was the search for women to serve his pleasure" and "for this end he established a fair at his court. No one was allowed to enter except women of all ranks that is to say, great and small, rich and poor, but all beautiful". When he was detained in the Agra Fort, Aurangzeb permitted him to retain "the whole of his female establishment, including the singing and dancing women." Manucci notes that Shah Jahan didn't lose his "weakness for the flesh" even when he had grown very old