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SSC CGL 2019 PYQ — Question 41

SSC CGL - 10th June 2019 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q41

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__________ married Mehr-un-Nisa whom he gave the title of 'Nur Jahan' (light of the world).

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Correct answer: B

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The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Jahangir.

__________ married Mehr-un-Nisa whom he gave the title of 'Nur Jahan' (light of the world). 

Jahangir

Who was 'Nur Jahan'? 
  • The fourth Mughal Emperor Jahangir finally found 15 years of wedded bliss with his twentieth wife, Nur Jahan.
  • She was the most prominent and powerful empress in the history of the Mughal Empire. Strong, witty, well-educated, and charismatic.
  • She was called by some historians as the ‘power behind the throne’ during Jehangir’s reign. 
  • She became the most prominent empress of the empire, and the only Mughal empress to have a coin struck in her name.