Akhtar-e-Iqbal Book Cover: Akhtar-e-Iqbal

Sultan Jahan Begum's Akhtar-e-Iqbal is the second part of Gauhar-e-Iqbal. It chronicles her reign between the 8th and the 12th years. The period assumes greater importance as it was during these years that they enacted various reforms in judiciary, legislature, education, police and the postal services. She also travelled to Shimla (summer capital of the British), Europe and to the Delhi durbar.