Shahar Banu Begum
| Shahar Banu Begum | |||||
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| Empress consort of Mughal | |||||
| Tenure | 14 March 1707 – 8 June 1707 | ||||
| Born | 1663 Bijapur, India |
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| Died | ? | ||||
| Spouse | Muhammad Azam Shah | ||||
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Ottoman (by birth) Timurid (by marriage) |
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| Father | Ali Adil Shah II | ||||
| Mother | Khurshida Khanum | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
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| Shahar Banu Begum |
Shahar Banu Begum (1663 – ?) also known as Padishah Bibi and Bijapuri Mahal, was Empress consort of the Mughal Empire as the third and last wife of Emperor Muhammad Azam Shah. By birth, she was a princess of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur and was the daughter of King Ali Adil Shah II and his consort Khurshida Khanum.
She was also the sister of King Sikandar Adil Shah, her father's successor and the ruler of Bijapur.
Shahzadi Shahar Banu Begum was born a princess of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur and was the daughter of King Ali Adil Shah II and his consort Khurshida Khanum. Shahar's paternal grandparents were King Mohammed Adil Shah, her father's predecessor and his Queen consort Taj Jahan Begum. Shahar's siblings included her two brothers, the princes Hussain and Sikandar, the latter of whom succeeded her father as King in 1672 at the age of four.
By all accounts, Shahar was greatly loved by the people of Bijapur as well as by her family. She was very pretty as well as intelligent. To see the princess was a comfort and inspiration to the people of her father's kingdom. She was very graceful, charming, and her smile was reportedly, bewitching. The princess was courageous and devoted to her kingdom for she herself played a great part in her state's defense in 1679 when she was forcibly married for a political alliance.
Shahar's father, King Ali Adil Shah, died on 24 November 1672, and with him departed the glory of the Kingdom of Bijapur. He was succeeded by Shahar's infant brother, the four-year-old: Sikandar Adil Shah, a period of anarchy ensued which ended only with the extinction of the dynasty and the independence of the Kingdom in 1686. The weakness and humiliation of Bijapur during this period is illustrated by the defection of 10,000 Bijapuris to the rival Mughal camp and the compulsory submission of King Sikandar's sister, the princess Shahar, to the Mughal harem. The promise to hand over the princess to the Mughals was made by Sikandar's regent, Khawas Khan, who was later assassinated for his treachery by his successor Abdul Karim. A peace treaty between Bijapur and the Mughals was signed by the terms of which Princess Shahar was to be wed to the imperial prince, Muhammad Azam Shah, the eldest son of the reigning Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and his late Empress consort Dilras Banu Begum.
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