Jahanzeb Banu Begum
| Jahanzeb Banu Begum | |||||
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| Shahzadi of the Mughal Empire | |||||
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| Died | March 1705 Gujarat, India |
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| Spouse | Azam Shah | ||||
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Sultan Bidar Bakht Jawan Bakht Bahadur Sikandar Shan Bahadur Najib-un-Nisa Begum |
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| House | Timurid (by birth) | ||||
| Father | Dara Shikoh | ||||
| Mother | Nadira Banu Begum | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
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| Jahanzeb Banu |
Jahanzeb Banu (died 1705) was a Mughal princess and a daughter of Crown Prince Dara Shikoh and his consort Nadira Banu Begum. Popularly known as Jani Begum, she was also a granddaughter of the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
The Italian writer and traveller, Niccolao Manucci, who worked under her father, described her as being beautiful and courageous. In 1669, she married her first cousin, Prince Azam Shah, the heir apparent to Emperor Aurangzeb, who briefly became Mughal emperor in 1707.
Jahanzeb was born to Crown Prince Dara Shikoh, (Emperor Shah Jahan's oldest and favourite son) and his beloved wife, Nadira Banu Begum. Her father was the eldest son of Shah Jahan and was favoured by the emperor as well as his elder sister, Princess Jahanara Begum as Shah Jahan's successor. Jahanara had always been an ardent partisan of Dara Shikoh and greatly supported him. Jahanzeb's mother, Nadira Banu Begum, was also a Mughal princess, being the daughter of Sultan Parviz Mirza (second son of Emperor Jahangir) and his wife Iffat Jahan Banu Begum. Thus, making Nadira the granddaughter of Emperor Jahangir and his wife Sahib-i-Jamal.
Nadira Begum died in 1659 of dysentery, and within the same year, Dara Shikoh was executed on Aurangzeb's orders after his victory over the latter in the war of succession. After the death of Dara Shikoh, who was the heir-apparent to Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb became the sixth Mughal Emperor. Jahanzeb subsequently became an orphan after the consecutive deaths of her parents. Her arrival before the throne of her father's murderer was vividly described by foreign chroniclers, as was her despair when she was handed over to her aunt, Princess Roshanara Begum, to take care of. Roshanara immediately started mistreating her.
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