Hindal Mirza


Abu Nasir Muhammad Hindal was a Mughal prince as the youngest son of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor. He was also the older brother of Gulbadan Begum , the younger halfbrother of the second Mughal emperor Humayun as well as the paternal uncle and fatherinlaw of the third Mughal emperor Akbar.

Abu Nasir Muhammad Hindal was born onMarch 1519 in Kabul to the first Mughal emperor Babur and his wife Dildar Begum. Upon hearing the news of his birth, Babur named his youngest son, Hindal , since the prince was born while he was on his way to conquer Hind which he felt was a good omen. Babur further commemorated the birth of his son in his memoir the Baburnama. Two years after his birth, the prince and his sister Princess Gulbadan Begum were placed in Maham Begums care, Baburs fourth wife and the mother of Hindals older stepbrother, Humayun. Maham Begum had recently lost four children of her own in infancy, and wished to raise Hindal and his sister Gulbadan Begum in her own care.

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