On an autumn day in 1576, a Mughal princess led a cohort of royal women on an unprecedented voyage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. It was the first time in Mughal India that a woman had ...

In her book, Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi, historian Swapna Liddle writes: “This space had been commissioned by the princess Jahanara. Jahanara was a very wealthy woman.