Mehrunnisa sultan biography
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Mihr-un-nissa Begum
Empress consort of the Mughal Empire
Mihr-un-nissa Begum (Persian: مهرالنساء بیگم; born c. 1605), also known as Banu Begum (Persian: بانو بیگم) and Bahu Begum (Persian: بہو بیگم), and better known as Ladli Begum[3] (Persian: لاڈلی بیگم), was the daughter of Empress Nur Jahan and her first husband Sher Afgan of the Mughal Empire. She was the wife of Prince Shahryar Mirza, son of Emperor Jahangir.
Early life
[edit]Mehr-un-Nissa Khanum, daughter of Mirza Ghiyas Beg, also known as Itimad-ud-daula, was the mother of Mihr-un-nissa Begum. Mihr-un-nissa, better known as Ladli Begum, was the first cousin of Emperor Shah Jahan's wife, Empress Mumtaz Mahal, the daughter of Asaf Khan.[4] After Sher Afgan's death in 1607, she and her mother were summoned to Agra by Jahangir for their protection and her mother served as lady-in-waiting to Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, the chief wife of the late Emperor Akbar, for almost two years.[5] In 1611, her mother married Emperor Jahangir, and became known as Nur Jahan.[6]
In 1617, Nur Jahan planned to marry Mihr-un-Nissa to Prince Khusrau Mirza, Jahangir's eldest son, and to re-create him as the heir apparent, in place of Prince Khurram Mirza (future Emperor Shah Jahan). However, K
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The Twentieth Wife
Written by Indu Sundaresan
Review by India Edghill
In Mughal India, even the most powerful emperor always had one deadly enemy: his own son. In the late 1500s, the great Akbar rules while his son Salim impatiently waits to grasp the reins of empire. And as much as Prince Salim desires power, a girl named Mehrunnisa desires him.
Mehrunnisa’s life begins in drama: she’s born by the roadside and abandoned there by her desperate, impoverished parents. But as so often happens in her life, a benevolent fate steps in; the infant is saved. Raised in Akbar’s court, the bright and beautiful Mehrunnisa becomes the protégée of Ruqayya, Akbar’s chief queen. Prince Salim ignites her heart, but politics decree her marriage to Ali Quli, a soldier twice her age. Salim seems an impossible dream, especially when Akbar dies and the prince mounts the throne as the emperor Jahangir (World Grasper).
Helpless, Mehrunnisa watches history repeat itself; Jahangir’s son Prince Khusrau rebels and Mehrunnisa’s husband plots against the new emperor. When Ali Quli is killed, Mehrunnisa is free at last and schemes to come to Jahangir’s notice. And when she does, love triumphs, and the thirty-four-year-old widow becomes Jahangir’s wife at last–Nur Jahan (Light of the Wor
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Mehrunnisa: The Ordinal Wife
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