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{{Short description|Shahzadi of Mughal Empire}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Luzzat-un-Nissa Begum
| title = [[Princess|Shahzadi]] of [[Mughal Empire]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1597|9|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kashmir]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| death_date = c. 1603 (aged 5)
| death_place = [[Allahabad]], Mughal Empire
| father = [[Jahangir]]
| mother = [[Jagat Gosain]]
| religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
| dynasty = [[Timurid dynasty]]
}}

'''Luzzat-un-Nissa Begum''' ({{Langx|fa|{{nq|لذت النسا}}|lit=Delight Among Women}} 23 September 1597 – c. 1603) was a [[Mughal dynasty|Mughal]] princess, the youngest daughter of [[Jahangir|Emperor Jahangir]] and his [[Rathore dynasty|Rathore]] wife, [[Jagat Gosain]].
She was also the full sister of [[Shah Jahan|Emperor Shah Jahan]].

== Life ==
Born on 23 September 1597, Luzzat was the youngest daughter of Prince Salim (later [[Jahangir]]), the eldest surviving son of Mughal Emperor [[Akbar]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Fazl|first=Abul|title=The Akbarnama|publisher=ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL|volume=III|location=Calcutta|pages=1094|translator-last=Beveridge|translator-first=Henry}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Emperor|first=Jahangir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLqhaSfYn1oC|title=Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangir|year=1829|pages=21|translator-last=Price|translator-first=David}}</ref> Her mother was the [[Rathore dynasty|Rathore]] princess, [[Jagat Gosain]] (''Bilqis Makani'' in official chronicles), the tenth daughter of [[Udai Singh of Marwar|Udai Singh Rathore]], the Raja of [[Jodhpur State|Marwar]]. She was born at [[Kashmir]] on the return journey of the Royal entourage of her grandfather, Akbar, towards [[Lahore]].<ref name=":0" />

She had two older full-siblings, Begum Sultan, who died infancy and [[Shah Jahan|Prince Khurram]], who succeeded their father to throne.

== Death ==
Luzzat-un-Nissa died at the age of 5, {{Circa|1603}}, during the rebellion of her father.<ref name=":1" />

== Ancestry ==
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|1= 1. '''Luzzat-un-Nissa Begum'''
|2= 2. [[Jahangir|Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir, Mughal Emperor]]<ref name="Findly 1993 125">{{cite book |last1=Findly |first1=Ellison Banks |title=Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India |url=https://archive.org/details/nurjahanempressm00find |date=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-536060-8 |page=125}}</ref>
|3= 3. [[Jagat Gosain]]<ref name="Findly 1993 125"/>
|4= 4. [[Akbar|Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, Mughal Emperor]]<ref name=tuzk-e-jahangiri>{{cite book |url=http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D11001080%26ct%3D0 |title=The Tūzuk-i-Jahangīrī Or Memoirs Of Jahāngīr |author=Jahangir |translator1=Alexander Rogers |translator2=Henry Beveridge |access-date=19 November 2017 |page=1 |publisher=Royal Asiatic Society |date=1909–1914 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305012916/http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D11001080%26ct%3D0 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|5= 5. [[Mariam-uz-Zamani]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Jahangir|1909–1914|p=1}}</ref>
|6= 6. [[Udai Singh of Marwar|Udai Singh]], Raja of [[Jodhpur State|Marwar]]<ref name=Thackston>{{cite book|translator-last=Thackston|translator-first=Wheeler M.|title=The Jahangirnama : memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha|date=1999|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|location=New York [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-19-512718-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/13 13]}}</ref>
|7=7. Manrang Devi<ref name="Bhargava1966">{{cite book|last=Bhargava|first=Visheshwar Sarup|title=Marwar and the Mughal Emperors (A. D. 1526–1748)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbY9AAAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal|isbn=978-81-215-0400-3|page=58}}</ref>
|8= 8. [[Humayun|Nasir-ud-din Muhammad Humayun, Mughal Emperor]]<ref name="Gulbadan1902">{{cite book|last=Gulbadan Begum|author-link=Gulbadan Begum|translator=Annette Beveridge|translator-link=Annette Beveridge|title=The History of Humayun (Humayun-nama)|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofhumayun00gulbrich/page/156/mode/1up|year=1902|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society|location=London|pages=157–58}}</ref>
|9= 9. [[Hamida Banu Begum]]<ref name="Gulbadan1902" />
|10= 10. [[Bharmal]], Raja of [[Amer, India|Amber]]<ref>[[Syad Muhammad Latif]], ''Agra: Historical and descriptive with an account of Akbar and his court and of the modern city of Agra'' (2003), p.156</ref>
|11= 11. Rani Champavati [[Solanki (clan)|Solanki]]<ref>C. M. Agrawal, ''Akbar and his Hindu officers: a critical study'' (1986), p.27</ref><ref>Jadunath Sarkar, ''A History of Jaipur'' (1994), p. 43</ref>
|12= 12. [[Maldev Rathore|Maldeo]], Rao of [[Jodhpur State|Marwar]]<ref>'Inayat Khan, Wayne Edison Begley, ''The Shah Jahan nama of 'Inayat Khan: an abridged history of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian : the nineteenth-century manuscript translation of A.R. Fuller'' (1994), p. 4</ref>
|13= 13. Swarup Devi of Khairawa<ref>Rajvi Amar Singh, ''Mediaeval History of Rajasthan: Western Rajasthan'' (1992), p.38</ref>
|14=14. [[Askaran]], Raja of [[Narwar]]<ref>Richard Saran and Norman P. Ziegler, ''The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan'' (2001), p.194</ref> (nephew of 10)
|15= }}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:1597 births]]
[[Category:1603 deaths]]
[[Category:Mughal princesses]]
[[Category:16th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:16th-century Mughal Empire people]]
[[Category:17th-century Mughal Empire people]]
[[Category:17th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:Daughters of emperors]]
[[Category:Royalty who died as children]]

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