Talk:Sultan Jahan, Begum of Bhopal

Name confusion
The name by which this person was most commonly known was "Sultan Jahan". As she (Sultan Jahan) mentions in Hayat-i-Qudsi, her biography of her great-grandmother Qudsia Begum, the name "Kaikhusrau Jahan" (کیخسرو جہان) is not her actual name, but her "Tarikhi Nam (تاریخی نام)", which is a date-mnemonic name that represents a number through Abjad numerals. .

The name "Kaikhusrau" is not mentioned in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica or the 1906 Dictionary of Indian Biography. The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannic refers to her as "The sultan Jahan Begum, succeeded on the death of her mother, Shah Jahan Begum, in June 1901, being the only female ruler in India". The 1906 Dictionary of Indian Biography refers to her as the "present Nawab" "Sultan Jehan Begam". Sysdepot (talk)