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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.
She was the mother of Parviz's eldest son, Prince Durandish Mirza born on 2 February 1615, [33] and died on 5 December 1619, [34] [35] and of Princess Nadira Banu Begum wife of Shah Jahan's son Prince Dara Shikoh. [36] His second wife was the daughter of Mirza Rustam, son of Soltan Hosayn Mirza and grandson of Bahram Mirza Safavi. In 1612 ...
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.
Dara Shikoh would be given the Punjab and adjoining territories, Shuja would get Bengal, Murad would get Gujarat, Aurangzeb's son Sultan Muhammad would get the Deccan, and the rest of the empire would go to Aurangzeb. Aurangzeb refused Jahanara's proposition on the grounds that Dara Shikoh was an infidel. [38]
[15] [16] Mumtaz and her husband had 14 children, including Jahanara Begum (Shah Jahan's favorite daughter), [17] and the Crown prince Dara Shikoh, the heir-apparent, [18] anointed by his father, who temporarily succeeded him until deposed by Mumtaz Mahal's sixth child, Aurangzeb, who ultimately succeeded his father as the sixth Mughal emperor ...
On 3 January 1669, Azam married his cousin, Princess Jahanzeb Banu Begum, the daughter of his eldest uncle Crown Prince Dara Shikoh and his beloved wife Nadira Bano Begum. [citation needed] Jahanzeb was his chief wife and his favorite wife, whom he loved dearly. She gave birth to her eldest son on 4 August 1670.