This said, much of the later years of his reign, Jehangir had very little control. Almost all the control slipped into the hands of Nur Jehan who was a protege fo Ruqaiyya Begum who herself resented Harkha Bai’s influence on Akbar and her special place in his heart and harem. Perhaps there was an instigation to make little unobtrusive changes. Who knows? Later historians have not helped either and so a great queen’s footprints have been obliterated by the waves of myopic writing..