About the Book: The Teenage Diary of Jahanara
It is 1626, and Jahanara is in Mandu, central India. Her father, Prince
Khurram— who will later become Emperor Shah Jahan—has fallen out of favour with
Emperor Jahangir, and now lives in the Deccan with his wife Arjamand Bano and
their five children. As events unfold around her, Jahanara records them in her
diary—her fathers reaction to his exile; Empress Nur Jahans demand that
Jahanaras brothers be sent to her court as hostages; the conspiracies in faraway
Agra and Lahore as Jahangir slides into ill-health; and her own growth as a
sensitive writer and poet. Then one day,