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Page 57
... Khusrau . Hatred of Shah Jahan momentarily prevented Roe from ac- curately assessing the situation . He believed that Jahangir still intended to make Khusrau his heir and was simply playing one son off against the other ; civil war ...
... Khusrau . Hatred of Shah Jahan momentarily prevented Roe from ac- curately assessing the situation . He believed that Jahangir still intended to make Khusrau his heir and was simply playing one son off against the other ; civil war ...
Page 70
... Khusrau - quietly but ominously encompassed in a single sentence of Jahangir's daily record : " A letter from Khurram informed me that Khusrau died of colic . " Whether Jahangir suspected the worst , there is no evidence . But for ...
... Khusrau - quietly but ominously encompassed in a single sentence of Jahangir's daily record : " A letter from Khurram informed me that Khusrau died of colic . " Whether Jahangir suspected the worst , there is no evidence . But for ...
Page 72
... Khusrau's wife ( " who had slept in another room " ) found him cold and dead in the morning , shrieked , and sum ... Khusrau was taken out of the town , and buried in a garden . " But according to the Dutch , one noble wrote Jahangir ...
... Khusrau's wife ( " who had slept in another room " ) found him cold and dead in the morning , shrieked , and sum ... Khusrau was taken out of the town , and buried in a garden . " But according to the Dutch , one noble wrote Jahangir ...
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Day of Vengeance | 22 |
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