Other than Nur Jahan leading army to help captive Jehangir and shezadi jani daughter of dara sikoh leading mughal army to defeat deccan ruler on behalf of her husband there are no instances of mughal women ever going to war field.During Babar and Humayun time women were more free and travelled with their husbands openly and to war fields
But with Akbar the strict purdah and isolation system started where women had to stay in purdah and no paraya mard(not even relatives only son, husband, father and brother) could see/speak with them. Hence the powerful nur jahan(the most powerful empress among mughals and among indian queens) also used her brother asaf khan and khurram to carry out her work.
So to show the same Akbar's begums going to war field in warrior dress is historically wrong. I doubt they could actually leave their tents also because of strict pardha and ghunghat system. Majority mughal emperors left their family not in war field tents but very far off tents or in palaces near the place and went to war and returned back after end of day.
Yes women have defended themselves against attackers but not mughal women. They usually had strict pardah rules then and could not even leave their palaces/tents so fighting enemy is very far off.
Regarding pepper spray we cannot compare 21st women to those time women. Nowadays girls work, earn, feed family, do jobs that were usually male dominated like astronaut, soldier, police etc. So they have to go out alone to do all this and men cannot come everywhere and be self reliant and take care of themselves. That is not case of 16th century.
Edited by myviewprem - 11 years ago
