Question

Salim, the son and successor of Akbar, on becoming emperor, assumed the name of _
A) Jahangir
B) Jahangir Alampanah
C) Jahangir Alamgir
D) Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir

Answer 1

Hint:
The full name of Salim is Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim. Born on 31 August 1569 and died on 28 October 1627. According to history, Salim was the Akbar's successor and fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. He was the son of great Akbar and mother was Mariam-uz-Zamani. Akbar always called him Shekhu Baba.

Complete step by step solution:
Prince Salim took over the throne on Thursday, 3 November 1605. Only eight days after his father's death. He remained emperor for a period of 22-year from the age of 36. Salim got the post of Mansabdar of ten thousand (Das-Hazari). It was the highest military rank of the empire (after the emperor) at that time. Only at the age of twelve, he independently commanded a regiment in the Kabul campaign of 1581.
Salim was married to Man Bai, on 13 February 1585 and she gave birth to their first son Khusrau Mirza. Later he was married to many girls but her favourite was Jagat Gosain Begum. She is the mother of Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan. Salim later married the beautiful and talented Mehr-un-Nisa (better known as Nur Jahan) on 25 May 1611.
 In later age, Salim considered his third son Prince Khurram (future Shah Jahan), his favourite and gave his throne. Salim died on the journey from Kashmir to Lahore, near Sarai Saadabad in Bhimber in 1627 due to ill health.
Salim became the emperor with the title of Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir Badshah Ghazi whom we know as famous Jahangir.


Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
Jahangir is widely considered to have been a weak and incapable ruler. Orientalist Henry Beveridge was the editor of the Tuzk-e-Jahangiri. He compared Jahangir with the Roman emperor Claudius, as both were "weak men in their wrong places as rulers".