The cost of saving an emperor's child's life

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myviewprem

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Posted: 11 years ago

Jehangir was the emperor of India when he gave permission to British to trade in india. The rest as they say is history because these britishers not only eliminated the Mughal dynasty from face of earth in 1857 first war of independence but also ruled india for 250 years. But why did Jehangir give permission to British after resisting them for 10 years?

Jehangir's younger daughter Bahar Bano Begum got very unwell once and no vaidya/hakim etc could cure her. She was obivously the apple of her father's eyes. Jehangir got very upset and scared and went to many holy places to pray for her to get well and also donated etc but to no avail. Captain Hawkins a British captain and Sir Thomas Roe were good friends with Jehangir. But Jehangir had refused them permission to trade in India under East india company.

Captain Hawkins one day went to visit Jehangir and found him very upset and asked him what matter was? Jehangir told him his daughter was very unwell and none of Hakim/Vaidya in india etc could cure her. Captain Hawkins told him to give permission to an British doctor to check her and Jehangir agreed. The doctor checked on Shezadi Bahar and gave her some English medicines. Within a week Bahar was getting better and within another few weeks she was on her feet.

Jehangir who had given up hope was very grateful to Captain Hawkins and gave him many gifts, gold etc and asked him to ask anything he wants in return for saving his daughter's life. Captain Hawkins asked him to promise him not to refuse what he asked and jehangir promised.

Captain Hawkins told "I want nothing for myself but i beg your majesty to give permission to my countrymen to trade in your country". Jehangir never wanted to give permission because already the portugese who had been given permission were troubling indians. But he had given his promise and hence allowed east india company to trade. Little did he know what his promise would lead to in future???

The cost of saving an emperor's child was the independence of India in future and the death of his family lineage.

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Donjas

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Posted: 11 years ago

What a beautiful story. Thank you.

A parent's love for his child. Nothing can top that.

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oiiinano

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Posted: 11 years ago

Sachii mei...yeh beautifulll...story..hai...per iski natija...ohh...gawwddd...
Tfs dr for dizz great info abt shekhu..baba...:-D

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myviewprem

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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: tvnamratha
Sachii mei...yeh beautifulll...story..hai...per iski natija...ohh...gawwddd...
Tfs dr for dizz great info abt shekhu..baba...:-D

Just teaches us an important lesson of life- Har galat decision ke peeche kabhi kabhi bewakoofi nahi bahut badi majboori bhi ho sakthi hai

Till i read this story recently even i thought that just because british captains were his drink party friends jehangir agreed to allow east india to trade in india

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Abhay

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Posted: 11 years ago

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But this was not the only reason.
I can not recollect the names of those sources but the archives of East India Company Letters mention another reason also..

They say Jahangir wanted to counter the increasing influence of Portuguese and hence give the rights to British.

Moreover matters FINALLY TOTALLY worsened when Portuguese captured the ship of MUZ..!..

BTW, similar tactic was also used by British in 1651 in Bengal, when Shah Shuja was governor there. Then, Dr. Boughton of East India Company treated the royal lady and got the trade relaxation for 3000/year..

TFS.😊

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Parijatrocks

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Posted: 11 years ago

no one could predict future, if they knew future it would have not been done..

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myviewprem

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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: history_geek
Hi

But this was not the only reason.
I can not recollect the names of those sources but the archives of East India Company Letters mention another reason also..

They say Jahangir wanted to counter the increasing influence of Portuguese and hence give the rights to British.

Moreover matters FINALLY TOTALLY worsened when Portuguese captured the ship of MUZ..!..

BTW, similar tactic was also used by British in 1651 in Bengal, when Shah Shuja was governor there. Then, Dr. Boughton of East India Company treated the royal lady and got the trade relaxation for 3000/year..

TFS.😊

Yes Khurram threatened to attack their contonment in Deccan/west india so they told that "Justice will be done on sea", khurram did not bother and felt they cannot do anything and hence they captured the ships. Then jehangir(or was it nur jahan) interferred and got it released. I guess this story is after that incident with portugese.

Were these doctors having any ethics? Or were they acting on behalf of their Queen and armtwisting the emperor and his family members to let go off their empire interest everytime their loved ones are unwell????😕

All the emperor had to do was arrest all of them and ask the British to release their ships at sea. All this was because Mughals did not have good navy. They should have raised a navy force and started protecting our shores that would have stopped portugese and britishers etc armtwisting

Those people did not come to settle in india but to loot our riches and take it back to their countries

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