Bakshi Banu Begum


Shahzadi Bakshi Banu was a Mughal princess as the second daughter of Emperor Humayun from his wife Gunwar Bibi. She was also the granddaughter of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal Emperor, as well as the older halfsister of the third Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Bakshi Banu Begum was born in September of 1540 in Lahore to Gunwar Bibi, in the year of the Timurid exodus from India. She fell into the hands of her uncle, Askari Mirza, with her fathers camp along with her halfbrother, the baby Akbar in 1543. In the depth of the winter of 1545, she was sent with Akbar from Qandahar to Kabul by the orders of her uncle, Askari Mirza, while being accompanied by their attendants and foster mothers.

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