Jahangir: Twelve Decrees

The Essential Primary Sources
Table of Contents
Jahangir:Twelve Decrees
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844247.book-part-022

  You don't have access to this content. Please try to log in with your institution. Sign In

Abstract

On Thursday, the eighth of Jumada-s-sani, 1014 A. H. [Oct. 12, 1605 A. D.], I ascended the throne at Agra, in the thirty-eighth year of my age. The first order which I issued was for the setting up of a Chain of Justice, so that if the officers of the courts of justice should fail in the investigation of the complaints of the oppressed and in granting them redress, the injured persons might come to this chain and shake it, and thus give notice of their wrongs.

Contents