Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Begum Shahi Mosque" in English language version.
During the Sikh era this splendid mosque was turned into a gunpowder factory and it became popular as Barood Khana Wali Masjid (the mosque with gun powder). In 1850 the British Raj handed over the mosque to the Muslims who restored it to its original glory.
Maryam-uz- Zamani herself, however, remained untouched by the apostasy issue. There is no record of any question being raised about her position as a ship's owner under the Portuguese Pass; neither her religious status as a wife and then mother of a Muslim emperor nor the Hindu tradition of her birth seem to have been jeopardised by her involvement in sea trade in Christian waters. Rather, her position as a sequestered financier allowed her both the adventure of foreign trade and the protection from the religious restrictions such an enterprise might entail.
Maryam-uz- Zamani herself, however, remained untouched by the apostasy issue. There is no record of any question being raised about her position as a ship's owner under the Portuguese Pass; neither her religious status as a wife and then mother of a Muslim emperor nor the Hindu tradition of her birth seem to have been jeopardised by her involvement in sea trade in Christian waters. Rather, her position as a sequestered financier allowed her both the adventure of foreign trade and the protection from the religious restrictions such an enterprise might entail.
Maryam-uz- Zamani herself, however, remained untouched by the apostasy issue. There is no record of any question being raised about her position as a ship's owner under the Portuguese Pass; neither her religious status as a wife and then mother of a Muslim emperor nor the Hindu tradition of her birth seem to have been jeopardised by her involvement in sea trade in Christian waters. Rather, her position as a sequestered financier allowed her both the adventure of foreign trade and the protection from the religious restrictions such an enterprise might entail.