Nausheen Jaffery
Nausheen Jaffery (1972–2004) was a historian trained at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia. The present book is an edited, updated version of her MPhil dissertation, a biographical sketch of the Mughal princess Jahan Ara, which was first published in 2011.
Hailing from a family of scholars of Farsi, Nausheen Jaffrey’s mentor was Dr Yunus Jaffrey and she continued his tradition of helping scholars with translations. After a BA in history from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and MA in medieval history from Jamia Millia Islamia, she went on to complete an MPhil degree, writing her dissertation on Jahan Ara Begum. During her college years, she translated Sagin Beg’s Sair-ul-Manazil and Urdu texts for scholars like Margrit Pernau and William Dalrymple. She completed a diploma in Farsi with distinction.
Tragically, her career was cut short and her life was claimed by cancer in 2004. Her uncle Dr Yunus Jaffrey passed in 2016. Nausheen’s work lives on after her. Sangin Beg: Sair-ul-Manazil, edited by Swapna Liddle, was published by Tulika Books in 2017, twenty years after Nausheen had translated it. The present book, edited by Shailaja Kathuria is an updated version of her MPhil dissertation, a biographical sketch of the Mughal princess Jahan Ara, which was first published in 2011.
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Jahan Ara Begum, 1614–1681-HC
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