Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.32

c3.32

Aurangzeb was a patron of Muhammadan learning and a great letter-writer, though such of his letters as I have seen are very uninteresting. His sister Jahān Ārā was an authoress, and wrote a tract about the Ajmere Saint, of which there is a copy in the British Museum. Aurangzeb’s daughter Zebu-n-nisā was a poet, as well as an encourager of learning, and her *Dīvān* has lately attracted a good deal of attention.