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Aurangzeb's Prisoner: The Forgotten Princess Zeb-un-Nisa
Aurangzeb's eldest daughter Zeb-un-Nisa was a brilliant poet, scholar, and patron of the arts—until her father imprisoned her for the last 20 years of her life. In this episode, we explore who she was: a princess who compiled the Makhzan-e-Afkaar, a massive anthology of Persian poetry; who secretly corresponded with her Sufi teacher Mulla Shah; who challenged her father's orthodoxy through literature. We look at her imprisonment in the Salimgarh Fort, her relationship with her brother Prince Muhammad Akbar, and the legend that she commissioned a copy of the Quran in her own blood…
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