Parhez Banu Begum
Parhez Banu Begum | |
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Shahzadi of the Mughal Empire | |
Born | 21 August 1611 Agra, India |
Died | c. 1675 (aged 63–64) Delhi, India |
Burial | Delhi |
House | Timurid |
Father | Shah Jahan |
Mother | Kandahari Begum |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Parhez Banu Begum (21 August 1611 – c. 1675) was a Mughal princess, the first child and eldest daughter of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan from his first wife, Kandahari Begum. She was also the older half-sister of her father's successor, the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
Life[]
Parhez was born on 21 August 1611 in Agra to Prince Khurram (the future emperor Shah Jahan) and his first wife Kandahari Begum. She was named 'Parhez Banu Begum' (Persian: "the abstinent Princess")[1] by her paternal grandfather, Emperor Jahangir. However, in the Maasir-i-Alamgiri, she is referred to as Purhunar Banu Begum.[2] Her father, Prince Khurram, was the third son of Emperor Jahangir, while her mother, Kandahari Begum, was a princess of the prominent Safavid dynasty of Iran (Persia) and was a daughter of Sultan Muzaffar Husain Mirza Safavi (who was a direct descendant of Shah Ismail I).[3]
Parhez was Shah Jahan's first child and his eldest daughter and was brought up by her step-great-grandmother, the dowager empress Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, who had been Emperor Akbar's first and chief wife,[4] and who had also brought up her father, Shah Jahan.[5]
Although her mother was not Shah Jahan's favourite wife, nonetheless, she was loved by her father; who had earnestly requested his daughter, Jahanara Begum (his eldest daughter from Mumtaz Mahal) on his deathbed, to look after Parhez. She was also loved and well-cared for by her younger half-brother, Aurangzeb.[2]
Death[]
Perhez died on 19 October 1675 in Delhi. The nobles of the subah burried her in the musoleum (garden) built by her.[6]
Ancestry[]
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References[]
- ^ Fraser, James (1742). The History of Nadir Shah: Formerly Called Thamas Kuli Khan, the Present Emperor of Persia. ... At the End is Inserted, a Catalogue of about Two Hundred Manuscripts in the Persic and Other Oriental Languages, Collected in the East. By James Fraser. W. Strahan. p. 29.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Sarker, Kobita (2007). Shah Jahan and his paradise on earth : the story of Shah Jahan's creations in Agra and Shahjahanabad in the golden days of the Mughals (1. publ. ed.). Kolkata: K.P. Bagchi & Co. p. 187. ISBN 9788170743002.
- ^ Nicoll, Fergus (2009). Shah Jahan. New Delhi: Viking. p. 64. ISBN 9780670083039.
- ^ Findly, Ellison Banks (1993). Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN 9780195360608.
- ^ Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan (1999). The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Translated by Thackston, Wheeler M. Oxford University Press. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-19-512718-8.
- ^ Sarkar, Jadunath (1947). Maasir-i- Alamgiri.
- ^ Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene, An Oriental Biographical Dictionary (1894), p. 309
- ^ Beale and Keene (1894, p. 309)
- ^ Jl Mehta, Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India (1986), p. 418
- ^ Mehta (1986, p. 418)
- ^ Nagendra Kr Singh, Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: Muh-R (2001), p.427
- ^ Mehta (1986, p. 374)
- ^ Mehta (1986, p. 374)
- ^ Soma Mukherjee, Royal Mughal Ladies and Their Contributions (2001), p. 128
- ^ Mukherjee (2001, p. 128)
- ^ Singh (2001, p. 427)
- 1611 births
- 1675 deaths
- Mughal princesses
- Mughal nobility
- Indian female royalty
- Women of the Mughal Empire
- 17th-century Indian women
- 17th-century Indian people