Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

He was the one who ordered the taj mahal to be built.

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

Like all his ancestors, Shah Jahan's court included many wives, concubines, and dancing girls. Several European chroniclers have noted this. Niccolao Manucci wrote that "it would seem as if the only thing Shahjahan cared for was the search for women to serve his pleasure" and "for this end he established a fair at his court. No one was allowed to enter except women of all ranks that is to say, great and small, rich and poor, but all handsome." When he was detained in the Agra Fort, Aurangzeb permitted him to retain "the whole of his female establishment, including the singing and dancing women." Manucci notes that Shah Jahan didn't lose his "weakness for the flesh" even when he had grown very old. However, most of the European travellers in India had access to such information primarily through bazaar gossip.

Several European chroniclers have suggest that Shah Jahan had an incestuous relationship with his daughter Jahanara Begum. The European traveller Francois Bernier wrote, "Begum Sahib, the elder daughter of Shah Jahan was very beautiful... Rumour has it that his attachment reached a point which it is difficult to believe, the justification of which he rested on the decision of the Mullas, or doctors of their law. According to them it would have been unjust to deny the king the privilege of gathering fruit from the tree he himself had planted." Joannes de Laet was the first European to write about this rumour. Peter Mundy and Jean Baptiste Tavernier have also written about the same allegations.

So it is not true...

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

I can't possibly say whether that's true or not but I have seen peoples hair go white after a shock, so it may have happened.

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

It is true...they say it about Marie Antoinette the night before she was beheaded. (Off with her head)

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

Its just a myth...a common myth

Your hair can't turn white,

over the course of night,

now rest your curious mind,

before it gets you in a bind.

Answer your question, hope that does

Don't think too much, or your mind'll be in a fuzz.

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

Your hair cannot turn white unless you dye it. As it is dead, nothing will affect its colour as it's already grown. However it has been said that a change in metabolism or having an illness could change the colour of your hair from then on so it might start to grow a different shade.

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

this story seems true. he was the kind of men who LOVE their wife all over their life!he he ordered for making a palace called "taaj mahal" in india.his wife was from SHIRAZ a city in persia.

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

When people suffer from shock, the pigment can drain from their hair. Not overnight though, but this may be where the rumour came from.

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

As it is a new hair folicle that grows grey or white and not an existing hair that loses its colour, it is not possible for a persons hair to turn grey or white overnight.

Is it true that king shah-jahans hair turned white in the same night his wife died?

In the movie Taj Mahal, he is shown mourning inside his chamber. When the people knock and ask him to come out and eat something, he comes out and they show that his hair and beard has turned white. Just to convey how much he loved Mumtaz and how much he aged during that period. Pradeep Kumar acted as Shah Jahan and Bina Rai as Mumtaz Mahal.