Badr-un-Nissa Begum (; 17 November 1647 – 9 April 1670) was a Mughal princess, the only daughter of Mughal Emperor

Aurangzeb Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, also called Aurangzeb the Conqueror, was the sixth Mughal emperors, Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707, becomi ...

, and his secondary wife Nawab Bai. ''Badr-un-Nissa'' is an Arabic phrase meaning "the Full Moon among Women".

Life

Badr-un-Nissa Begum was born on 17 November 1647, during her grandfather Emperor

Shah Jahan Shah Jahan I, (Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram; 5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also called Shah Jahan the Magnificent, was the Emperor of Hindustan from 1628 until his deposition in 1658. As the fifth Mughal emperor, his reign marked the ...

's reign. Her mother was Nawab Bai, a princess from Kashmir Belonging from the Jarral

Rajput Rājpūt (, from Sanskrit ''rājaputra'' meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur (), is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating fro ...

dynasty of Jammu and Kashmir. She was the couple's third and last child. Her elder siblings were Prince Muhammad Sultan, and Prince Muhammad Muazzam (future Emperor

Bahadur Shah I Bahadur Shah I (Muhammad Mu'azzam; 14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712) or Shah Alam I, was the eighth Mughal Emperor from 1707 to 1712. He was the second son of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who he conspired to overthrow in his youth ...

). At the time of Aurangzeb's second coronation in 1659, he rewarded Badr-un-Nissa with 160,000 Rupess. She is said to be more educated than her sisters. She memorized the Quran, and read books on faith at her father's persuasion. She spent her life doing good deeds. Aurangzeb loved her for her marvelous character, etiquette, and kindheartedness. She died unmarried at twenty-two on 9 April 1670, in the thirteenth year of her father's reign. Aurangzeb was distressed upon her death.

Ancestry

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