Badr-un-Nissa Begum

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Badr-un-Nissa Begum
Shahzadi of Mughal Empire
Born 27 November 1647
Delhi, Mughal Empire
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Delhi, Mughal Empire
Full name
Badr-un-nissa Begum
House Timurid
Father Aurangzeb
Mother Nawab Bai
Religion Sunni Islam

Badr-un-Nissa Begum (Persian: بدرالنساء بیگم‎‎; 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 is itself an Arabic phrase meaning "the Full Moon among Women".

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 dynasty 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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