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8 Tir 41 R.Y./AH 1004 (29 June 1596). It is, thus, probable that the rumor mill
got hold of Salim's dispute with his father on a marital issue. Within four
months of Salim's marriage with Zain Khan Koka's daughter, in the evening
of 26 Mehr of the same year (19 October 1596), the mother of Princcc: Danyal
died; the very next day an 'old' concubine of Akbar passed away ai:'id a day
after, on 28 Mehr (21 October 1596), Prince Salim's wife, who was the daughter
of Raja 'Ali Khan, the ruler of Khandesh, died. She had been sent by her father,
in token of submission, at the end of April 1593, on the persuasion of Akbar's
envoy, the poet Faizi, to marry Prince Salim, the heir apparent. It is possible
that the deaths of Danyal's mother and Salim's wife with the difference of
two days caused their identities to be confused, Danyal's mother being
confounded with Jahangir's wife, for whom Jahangir's inscribed declara-
tions of love were really intended. The confusion may have been aided by
the fact that Danyal's mother had been a concubine (khawwas) of Akbar,
and there is, therefore, a possibility that she might have originally borne the
harem name of Anar-kali." See Shireen Moosavi, "The Invention and Per-
sistence of a Legend-The Anarkali Story," in Studies in People's History 1,
l (2014), pp. 63-68.
39 .• Among the rare works to pay attention to the political lives of Mughal women
is Ruby Lal's Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005).
- A'CONQUEST OF PASTS
r. On the significance and history of long graves (nau gaz) in West Asia, see
Brannon M. Wheeler, Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. 100-22.
- For al-Ansari, see David Shulman, "Muslim Popular Literature in Tamil: The
Tamirmancari Malai,"in Yohanan Friedmann, ed., Islam in Asia: South
Asia, vol. 1 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 174-207.; and David
Cook, "Tamim al-Dari," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, 61, no. 1 (1998), pp. 20-28. For Dinar, see
G. S. Khwaja, "An Arabic Epigraph Pertaining to Early Islamic Mission to
Kerala," fournal of the Epigraphical Society of India vol. 25, 1999, pp. 54-58.
- For explication of some of these stories, see Masood Hasan Shahab, Khita
Pak-e Ucl;i (Bahawalpur: Urdu Academy, 1968).
- See Abu'l-Fazl, The History of Akbar, ed. and trans. Wheeler M. Thackston,
vol. 1, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 47-70 and
559-571.
- Muhammad Masum Bakkari, Ta'r1kh-i Sind-Best Known as Ta'r1kh-i-
Ma'$iimI (Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1938), p. 4.
- Ibid., p. 22.
- Qani' authored more than forty-two works, including numerous compendia
of his own poetry (he excelled in the mathnavi and qasida); a dictionary of
Persian poets in Sind, Muq'allat-e Shur'a (1760); a history from the 'Abbasid
reign, Tar'ikh-i 'Abbasi (1761); and a unique cultural history of Sind, incor-
porating everything from fashion to culinary skills and means of relaxation,
Nisab ul-Bulgha (1783). Tuhfat ul-Kiram (1761) comprises three volumes. The
