A History of Agriculture in India v2.c80.3

v2.c80.3

Jahangir was a strange compound of opposites. While he claimed to be just, he was also capricious. While he had good sense he could also be childish. 'Wilful, indolent, and self-indulgent, he was too lazy and indifferent to be either actively good or powerfully evil,' observes Lane-Pool. In his last years he became a drunkard and an opium addict. He combined hedonism with cruelty and had no compunction in destroying his enemies by throwing them before *mast* elephants. He was also of a romantic temperament. In his early youth he fell in love with Sharf-un-Nisa, a beautiful slave girl, who is known to posterity as Anarkali or pomegranate bud, and after whom the main shopping centre of Lahore is named.