Jahangir is widely considered to have been a weak and incapable ruler.
[25][26][27][28] Orientalist
Henry Beveridge (editor of the
Tuzk-e-Jahangiri) compares Jahangir to the Roman emperor
Claudius, for both were "weak men... in their wrong places as rulers... [and had] Jahangir been head of a Natural History Museum,... [he] would have been [a] better and happier man."
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Jahangir - Wikipediaese portraits are a unique example of art during Jahangir's reign because faces were not drawn in full, including the shoulders as well as the head as these drawings are.‘’ [24] Criticism[edit] <span>Jahangir is widely considered to have been a weak and incapable ruler.[25][26][27][28] Orientalist Henry Beveridge (editor of the Tuzk-e-Jahangiri) compares Jahangir to the Roman emperor Claudius, for both were "weak men... in their wrong places as rulers... [and had] Jahangir been head of a Natural History Museum,... [he] would have been [a] better and happier man."[29] Sir William Hawkins, who visited Jahangir's court in 1609, said: "In such short that what this man's father, called Ecber Padasha [Badshah Akbar], got of the Deccans, this king, Seli Summary
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