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Post by Guest Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:46 pm

From Bamber Gascoigne's 'The Great Moghuls pg 178, pg 155':
[On Jahangir]:

For the most part, he was unusually mild and he is described in European accounts as 'gentle, soft of disposition' or 'gentle and debonair'...And he is certainly the warmest, the most emotional of the Great Moghuls; his responses to the death of one grandchild and to the miraculous escape from a high fall of another would rank as touching passages in any diary; and if his feelings at times spilled over into the rankest sentimentality, as in the vast drinking tank for animals built at Sheikhupura in memory of a favourite deer, we can at least enjoy the resulting architecture.

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