Gulbadan Begum

Shahzadi Gulbadan Begum was a Mughal Princess, the daughter of Emperor Babur of the Mughal Empire, she is most known as the author of Humayun Nama, the account of the life of her halfbrother, Humayun. Later, her nephew, Prince JalaludDn ascended the imperial throne as Emperor Akbar the Great. She was also the paternal aunt of Akbars chief consort, Empress Ruqaiya Sultan Begum.

When Princess Gulbadan was born her father had been lord in Kabul foryears he was master also in Kunduz and Badakhshan, had held Bajaur and Swat since 1519, and Kandahar for a year. Duringof thoseyears he had been styled padshah, in token of headship of the house of Timur and of his independent sovereignty. Two years later Babur set out on his last expedition across the Indus to conquer an empire in India. Gulbadan Begum was brought to India at the age of six, was married at 17, and had at least one son. Gulbadans siblings included her elder brother, Hindal Mirza, Kamran Mirza, and two elder sisters, the princesses Gulrang Begum and Gulchehra Begum, while her younger brother Alwar Mirza, died in childhood. Among her siblings, Gulbadan was very close to her brother, Hindal Mirza.

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