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 JarralRajput 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]
^Irvine, William. Later Mughal. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. p. 2.
^ abSharma, Sudha (21 March 2016). The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India. SAGE Publications India. pp. 124, 212. ISBN978-9-351-50567-9.
^Iftikhar, Rukhsana (6 June 2016). Indian Feminism: Class, Gender & Identity in Medieval Ages. Notion Press. ISBN978-9-386-07373-0.[page needed]
^Chandrababu, B. S.; Thilagavathi, L. (2009). Woman, Her History and Her Struggle for Emancipation. Bharathi Puthakalayam. p. 210. ISBN978-8-189-90997-0.
^Sarkar, Jadunath (1912). History of Aurangzib mainly based on Persian sources: Volume 1 - Reign of Shah Jahan. M.C. Sarkar & sons, Calcutta. p. 72.
^Behari, Bepin (1996). Astrological Biographies: Seventeen Examples of Predictive Insights. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 52. ISBN978-8-120-81322-9.
August 05, 2023
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