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{{Infobox royalty
| consort=yes
| name =Bakshi Banu Begum
| image =
| caption =
| title = [[Princess|Shahzadi]] of [[Mughal Empire]]
| reign =
| spouse =Ibrahim Mirza(1550-1560)<br>Mirza Sharif-ud-din Hussain(m.1560)
| issue = Mehtab Bano
| house =[[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]]
| father =[[Humayun]]
| mother= Gunwar Bibi
| birth_date =September 1540
| birth_place = [[Delhi]]
| death_date = 1596
| death_place= [[Lahore]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| place of burial= [[Kabul]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| religion =[[Sunni Islam]]
| full name=
}}

'''Bakshi Banu Begum''' ({{lang-fa|بخشی بانو بیگم}}; born September 1540) was a Mughal princess and was the second daughter of Emperor [[Humayun]] and his consort Gunwar Bibi.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lal|first=Muni|title=Akbar|year=1980|publisher=Vikas|isbn=9780706910766|page=7}}</ref> Bakshi Banu was thus the older [[half-sister]] of the Mughal Emperor [[Akbar]].

==Early life==
Bakshi Banu Begum was born in September 1540 in [[Delhi]]. Her mother was Bibi Gunwar. Gulbadan Begum noted in 'Humayunama' that during Gunwar's pregnancy everyone said, 'a son will be born'.<ref>{{cite book|author =Begum, Gulbadan|author-link =Gulbadan Begum|title=The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama)|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|year=1902|pages=146}}</ref>

In 1543, she was part of the large group of Humayun loyalists who fell into the hands of [[Askari Mirza]], Humayun's half-brother; her infant half-brother [[Akbar]] (born in 1542) was also part of the party.<ref>{{cite book|last=Latif|first=Syad Muhammad|title=Agra Historical & Descriptive with an Account of Akbar and his Court and of the Modern City of Agra|year=2003|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=9788120617094|page=205}}</ref> In the depth of the winter of 1545, she was sent with Akbar from [[Qandahar]] to [[Kabul]] by the orders of her uncle, Askari Mirza; the two children were escorted by their attendants and foster mothers.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Friedrich August Graf von Noer|author2=Friedrich Christian Charles August (Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg)|title=The Emperor Akbar: A Contribution Towards the History of India in the 16th Century, Volume 1|publisher=Thacker, Spink & Company|year=1890|pages=58}}</ref>

==Betrothal to Ibrahim Mirza==
In 1550, at the age of ten, Bakshi Banu was betrothed by her father to Ibrahim Mirza, eldest son of Sulaiman Shah Mirza, [[Governor]] of [[Badakshan]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Akbarnama of Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak - Volume I|first=Henry|last=Beveridge|year=1907|publisher=Asiatic Society, Calcutta|pages=572}}</ref> and his wife Haram Begum, the daughter of Sultan Wais Kulabi Qibchaq Mughal. The family of Sulaiman Mirza, though their paternal ancestress [[Shah Begum]], claimed descent from [[Alexander the Great]].<ref>{{cite book|author =Begum, Gulbadan|author-link =Gulbadan Begum|title=The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama)|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|year=1902|pages=242}}</ref> Ibrahim Mirza, who was six years older than Bakshi Banu, was killed in 1560 at 26. She was twenty years of age.<ref>{{cite book|first=Shiree |last=Moosvi|title=People, Taxation, and Trade in Mughal India|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|pages=113|isbn=978-0-195-69315-7}}</ref>

==Marriage to Sharif-ud-din Husain==
In the same year as the death of Ibrahim Mirza, she was given in marriage by Akbar to Mirza Sharif-ud-din Hussain Ahrari, the viceroy of [[Mewat]] upon his victory over the Kingdom of [[Amer, India|Amer]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Akbarnama of Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak - Volume II|first=Henry|last=Beveridge|year=1907|publisher=Asiatic Society, Calcuta|pages=197}}</ref> His father was Khawaja Moin Ala-ud-din, one of the leaders of Khawal. His mother was Kichak Begum, the daughter of Mir Ala-ul-Mulk Termizi and Fakhr Jahan Begum, the daughter of Sultan [[Abu Sa'id Mirza]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Shāhnavāz Khān|last1=Awangābādī|first2=Baini|last2=Prasad|first3='Abd al-Hayy ibn|last3=Shāhnavāz|title=The Maāthir-ul-umarā: Being biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D.|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|year=1979|pages=804, 809}}</ref> After his marriage to Bakshi Banu, Akbar appointed him the [[Viceroy]] of [[Ajmer]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Venkatarama|last=Raghavan|title=Sanskrit and Indological Studies: Dr. V. Raghavan Felicitation Volume|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|year=1975|pages=125}}</ref>

==References==
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