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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Badr-un-Nissa Begum
|title=[[Princess|Shahzadi]] of [[Mughal Empire]]| birth_date = 27 November 1647
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1670|4|9|1647|11|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Delhi]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| father = [[Aurangzeb]]
| mother = [[Nawab Bai]]
| house = [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]]
| religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
| full name = Badr-un-nissa Begum
}}

'''Badr-un-Nissa Begum''' ({{lang-fa|بدرالنساء بیگم}}; meaning "Full moon among women"; 17 November 1647 – 9 April 1670) was a Mughal princess, the only daughter of Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]], and his secondary wife [[Nawab Bai]].<ref>{{cite book|first=William|last=Irvine|title=Later Mughal|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distri|pages=2}}</ref>

==Life==
Badr-un-Nissa Begum was born on 17 November 1647, during her grandfather Emperor [[Shah Jahan]]'s reign. Her mother was Nawab Bai, a princess from Kashmir Belonging from the [[Jarral]] [[Rajput]] dynasty of [[Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]]. She was the couple's third and last child. Her elder siblings were Prince [[Muhammad Sultan (Mughal prince)|Muhammad Sultan]], and Prince Muhammad Muazzam (future Emperor [[Bahadur Shah I]]). At the time of Aurangzeb's second coronation in 1659, he rewarded Badr-un-Nissa with 160,000 Rupess.<ref name="sudha">{{cite book|first=Sudha|last=Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|publisher=SAGE Publications India|date=21 March 2016|pages=124, 212|isbn=978-9-351-50567-9}}</ref>

She is said to be more educated than her sisters. She memorized the Quran,<ref name="sudha"/> and read books on faith at the persuasion of her father. She spend her life in doing good things.<ref>{{cite book|first=Rukhsana|last=Iftikhar|title=Indian Feminism: Class, Gender & Identity in Medieval Ages|publisher=Notion Press|date=6 June 2016|isbn=978-9-386-07373-0}}{{page needed|date=May 2017}}</ref> She was loved by Aurangzeb for her marvelous character, etiquettes, and kind heartedness.<ref>{{cite book|first=B. S.|last=Chandrababu|first2=L.|last2=Thilagavathi|title=Woman, Her History and Her Struggle for Emancipation|publisher=Bharathi Puthakalayam|year=2009|pages=210|isbn=978-8-189-90997-0}}</ref> She died unmarried at the age of twenty two on 9 April 1670, in the thirteenth year of her father's reign.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jadunath|last=Sarkar|title=History of Aurangzib mainly based on Persian sources: Volume 1 - Reign of Shah Jahan|publisher=M.C. Sarkar & sons, Calcutta|year=1912|pages=72}}</ref> Aurangzeb was distressed upon her death.<ref>{{cite book|first=Bepin|last=Behari|title=Astrological Biographies: Seventeen Examples of Predictive Insights|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|year=1996|pages=52|isbn=978-8-120-81322-9}}</ref>

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Badr-un-Nissa Begum'''
|2= 2. [[Aurangzeb|Muhi-ud-din Muhammad Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor]]
|3= 3. [[Nawab Bai|Nawab Bai Begum]]
|4= 4. [[Shah Jahan|Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Shah Jahan I, Mughal Emperor]]
|5= 5. [[Mumtaz Mahal]]
|6= 6. Taj-ud-din Khan, [[Raja]] of [[Rajauri]]
|7=
|8= 8. [[Jahangir|Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir, Mughal Emperor]]
|9= 9. [[Jagat Gosain]]
|10= 10. [[Abu'l-Hasan Asaf Khan]]
|11= 11. Diwanji Begum
|12= 12. Sarmast Khan, [[Raja]] of [[Rajauri]]
|13=
|14=
|15= }}

==References==
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[[Category:Indian female royalty]]
[[Category:Kashmiri people]]
[[Category:Timurid dynasty]]
[[Category:17th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:17th-century Indian people]]

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