The King Jahangir, as a token of his love, ordered a magnificent tomb of stone to be built in the midst of a walled four-square garden surrounded by a gate. Upon notice of the affair, King Akbar ordered her to be enclosed within a wall of his palace, where she died. Īnarkali had an affair with Prince Salim (Jahangir). The convexity of the tombe he hath willed to be wrought in workes of gold with a large faire jounter with roomes over-head.' ( sic) ~ William Finch. '.is a faire monument for Don Sha his mother, one of the Acbar his wives, with whom it is said Sha Selim had to do ( her name was Immaeque Kelle, or Pomgranate kernell) upon notice of which the King caused her to be inclosed quicke within a wall in his moholl, where shee dyed, and the King, in token of his love commands a sumptuous tombe to be built of stone in the midst of foure square garden richly walled, with a gate and divers roomes over it.

His account, written in early 17th-century English, gives the following information. William Finch reached Lahore in February 1611 (only 11 years after the supposed death of Anarkali), to sell indigo he had purchased at Bayana on behalf of the East India Company. The earliest Western accounts about the love affair between Salim and Anarkali were written by two British travellers, William Finch and Edward Terry.

There are many supporting and opposing views such as the ones mentioned below. There is disagreement among scholars concerning the authenticity of Anarkali's accounts and legend. Anarkali was first mentioned in the journal of an English tourist and trader, William Finch, after he visited the Mughal Empire on 24 August 1608.

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