“The ladies of our country should be able to realise from this description the good fortune of their birth, and the extent of their freedom when compared with the position of ladies like them in other lands.”

— Francisco Pelsaert

Jahangir’s India
Source: quoted in K.S. Lal, The Mughal Harem (1988), 12

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Dutch merchant, commander of the ship Batavia 1591–1630

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