Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c20.8

c20.8

for a library of her own.¹ Salima Sulṭāna, the niece of Humāyūn, being the daughter of his sister Gul-Rukh, was a learned lady. She wrote many Persian poems under the *nom de plume* of Makhfī² (concealed). She became Akbar’s wife after the death of her first husband Bairām Khān. We have already seen that Akbar’s wet-nurse Māham Anaga was well educated, and founded a college in Delhi.