Mughal Administration c12.s7.8
Mughal Administration c12.s7.8
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c12.s7.8
Even the ladies of these Persian families of poets and doctors were learned and accomplished persons and they were employed in the imperial harem to teach the princesses and to superintend the distribution of the Emperor’s alms to women. In the last capacity the officer was called *Sadar-un-nisa* or ‘Almoner for women’. The life of *Siti-un-nisa*, the friend of the Empress Mumtaz Mahal and governess to her daughters, gives us a charming picture of culture within the harem in the glorious times of Shah Jahan. [See my *Studies in Mughal India*, pp. 21-26.]