Books By Nausheen Jaffery - Author

Nausheen Jaffrey (1972-2004) came from a family of Farsi scholars. Her mentor was Dr Yunus Jaffery and she continued his tradition of helping scholars with translations. After a BA in history from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and an MA in medieval history from Jamia Millia Islamia, Nausheen went on to complete an MPhil degree, writing her dissertation on Jahan Ara Begum. During her college years, she translated Sangin Beg's Sair-ul-Manazil from Persian, and Urdu texts for scholars like Margrit Pernau and William Dalrymple. She completed a diploma in Farsi with distinction.

Tragically, Nausheen's career was cut short and her life claimed by cancer in 2004, but her work lives on after her. Sangin Beg: Sair-ul-Manazil, edited by Swapna Liddle, was published by Tulika Books in 2017, twenty years after Nausheen had translated it. The present book, edited by Shailaja Kathuria, is an updated version of her MPhil dissertation, a biographical sketch of the Mughal princess Jahan Ara, which was f