Jahangir

Nuruddin Jahangir (August 31, 1569 - October 28, 1627) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1605 until 1627. He signed a treaty with the British East India Company promising their merchants preferential treatment, opening India to Britain for the first time.

Alternate view from scholarship

In The Great Mogul: His Cruelty (1618), Edward Terry writes:

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For his cruelties, he put one of his women to a miserable death; one of his women he had formerly touched and kept company with, but now she was superannuated; for neither himself nor nobles (as they say) come near their wives or women after they exceed the age of thirty years. The fault of that woman was this, the Mogul upon a time found her and one of her eunuchs kissing one another, and for this very thing the king presently gave command that a round hole should be made in the earth, and that her body should be put in that hole, where she should stand with her head only above the ground, and the earth to be put in again unto her close round about her, and so she might stand in the parching sun till the extreme hot beams thereof did kill her: in which torment she lived one whole day, and the night following, and almost till the next noon, crying out most lamentably, while she was still able to speak..."Ah my head, my head!", which horrid execution, or rather murder, was acted near our house; where the eunuch, by the command of the said King, was brought very near the place where this poor creature was thus buried alive, and there in his sight cut all to pieces."

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Eyewitness to History, ed, John Carey, 1988, p. 171.

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