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Nadira Banu Begum (14 March 1618 – 6 June 1659) was a Mughal princess and the wife of Crown Prince Dara Shikoh, [1] the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. [2] After Aurangzeb's rise to power, Dara Shikoh's immediate family and supporters were in danger. Nadira died in 1659, a few months before her husband's ...
Young Prince Dara Shikoh, aged 4-5, with his father Shah Jahan by Nanha c.1620. Muhammad Dara Shikoh was born on 11 March 1615 [2] in Ajmer, Rajasthan. [11] He was the first son and third child of Prince Shahib-ud-din Muhammad Khurram and his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal. [12]
Nadira was the wife of Dara Shikoh, who served as the governor of Lahore in the 1640s.In 1659, Dara was fighting his brother Aurangzeb for the Mughal throne. After Dara's defeat in the Battle of Deorai, he and his wife tried to flee to Iran through the Bolan Pass, but Nadira died of dysentery and exhaustion.
Jahanara was an ardent partisan of her brother, Dara Shikoh, and supported him as her father's chosen successor. During the war of succession which took place after Shah Jahan's illness in 1657, Jahanara sided with the heir-apparent Dara and joined her father in Agra Fort , where he had been placed under house arrest by Aurangzeb.
Described as 'the darling of Aurangzeb's old age', [2] Udaipuri Mahal had been a slave girl in the harem of Prince Dara Shikoh, [3] and before entering his harem, she had been a dancing girl. [4] She was either from Kashmir, or from nearby Udaipur, or as stated by her contemporary, the Venetian traveler Manucci, she was a Georgian Christian. [5]
English: Portrait of a young lady, recently identified as Jahanara and attributed to the painter Lalchand c. 1631-3 (Losty and Roy, p. 132). One of two portraits of the same lady occurring in an album presented in 1051 (1641/42) by Prince Dara Shikoh to his wife Nadira Banu Begum (Add.Or.3129, f. 25v).
Sulaiman Shikoh was born on 15 March 1635 to Prince Dara Shikoh and his wife Nadira Banu Begum. His mother was a Mughal princess and daughter of Parviz Mirza (son of Jahangir) and his first consort Jahan Begum. He was also the first grandchild of the then 43 year-old emperor, Shah Jahan.
Jahanzeb was the daughter of Crown Prince Dara Shikoh, the eldest son and heir-apparent of Emperor Shah Jahan. [4] Her mother, Nadira Banu Begum, was a Mughal princess and was the daughter of Prince Muhammad Parviz, the second son of Emperor Jahangir and Shah Jahan's older half-brother. [5]