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Jahangir is sometimes called a mixture of opposites. Discuss.
Solution
Sometimes Jahangir was needlessly cruel and inflicted punishments disproportionate to the offense committed. For this combination of good qualities and bad qualities of his character some historians have rightly called him as ‘the mixture of opposites’.
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