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Thinker, tailor, soldier, spy: The extraordinary women of Ghiyas-ud-din Khalji's harem

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Post by Guest Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:12 pm

Only women with the keenest intellect were to join the king at his meals every day, in order to discuss matters of theology and philosophy.

https://scroll.in/magazine/831419/thinker-tailor-soldier-spy-the-extraordinary-women-of-ghiyas-ud-din-khaljis-harem

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as the article correctly says, the mughal emperor Jahangir has written about this Ghiyas-ud-din Khalji (who had a magnificent harem) and his son Nasir-ud-din Khalji. the article mentions that Ghiyas was killed by Nasir for kingship. what the article does not say is that Jahangir records in his autobiography that when he was personally in what was once the kingdom of Ghiyas and Nasir, he was informed of the patricide, following which he asked his men to go to the tomb of Nasir and beat it with sticks. This was posthumous punishment for murdering his own father. Not being satisfied with the stick treatment, Jahangir subsequently asked his men to dig up the remains of Nasir, burn them, and throw them in a nearby river.

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