Badr-un-Nissa Begum

Badr-un-Nissa Begum (Persian: بدرالنساء بیگم‎; meaning "Full moon among women"; 17 November 1647 – 9 April 1670) was a Mughal princess, the only daughter of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, and his secondary wife Nawab Bai.[1]

Badr-un-Nissa Begum
Born27 November 1647
Delhi, Mughal Empire
Died9 April 1670(1670-04-09) (aged 22)
Delhi, Mughal Empire
Full name
Badr-un-nissa Begum
HouseTimurid
FatherAurangzeb
MotherNawab Bai
ReligionIslam

Life

Badr-un-Nissa Begum was born on 17 November 1647, during her grandfather Emperor Shah Jahan's reign. Her mother was Nawab Bai, a princess from Kashmir Belonging from the Jarral Rajput Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir. She was the couple's third and last child. Her elder siblings were Prince Muhammad Sultan, and Prince Muhammad Muazzam (future Emperor Bahadur Shah I). At the time of Aurangzeb's second coronation in 1659, he rewarded Badr-un-Nissa with 160,000 Rupess.[2]

She is said to be more educated than her sisters. She memorized the Quran,[2] and read books on faith at the persuasion of her father. She spend her life in doing good things.[3] She was loved by Aurangzeb for her marvelous character, etiquettes, and kind heartedness.[4] She died unmarried at the age of twenty two on 9 April 1670, in the thirteenth year of her father's reign.[5] Aurangzeb was distressed upon her death.[6]

Ancestry
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References
  1. Irvine, William. Later Mughal. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. p. 2.
  2. Sharma, Sudha (21 March 2016). The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India. SAGE Publications India. pp. 124, 212. ISBN 978-9-351-50567-9.
  3. Iftikhar, Rukhsana (6 June 2016). Indian Feminism: Class, Gender & Identity in Medieval Ages. Notion Press. ISBN 978-9-386-07373-0.
  4. Chandrababu, B. S.; Thilagavathi, L. (2009). Woman, Her History and Her Struggle for Emancipation. Bharathi Puthakalayam. p. 210. ISBN 978-8-189-90997-0.
  5. Sarkar, Jadunath (1912). History of Aurangzib mainly based on Persian sources: Volume 1 - Reign of Shah Jahan. M.C. Sarkar & sons, Calcutta. p. 72.
  6. Behari, Bepin (1996). Astrological Biographies: Seventeen Examples of Predictive Insights. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 52. ISBN 978-8-120-81322-9.
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