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62. Salima Sultan Begam:—By H. Beverwor. 
This lady was one of Akbar’s wives and was probably the 
cleverest and most attractive member of his seraglio. She was 
- both intellectual and tactful, and had much influence over her: 
husband and his son Jahangir. She had also a poetic vein, and 
one of her verses used to be famous. She was the niece of 
Of Niru-d-din we only know that he was Governor of Qanauj,. 
and that he instigated Hindal to rebel against his brother 
Humayun. 
Salima was a widow when Akbar married her in 1561, her first 
husband having been the great Bairam Khan, the real restorer of 
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and when that foolish and wicked man quarrelled with his father, 
Salima was deputed to Allahabad to bring him to a sense of his 
misconduct. She went there and was received with great respect 
by Jahangir who marched out two days’ journey to meet her. 
a reconciliation between him and his father. : 
According to: Janangir’s Memoirs Salima died at the age of 
ait pleased, therefore, to find a note at p. 72a of B.M. M.S. on 
171, Rieu I, 257, which stated that the writer had ascertained 
