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Parhez Banu Begum

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Parhez Banu Begum
Shahzadi of the Mughal Empire
Born21 August 1611
Agra, Agra Subah, India
Died19 October 1675(1675-10-19) (aged 64)
Delhi, Delhi Subah, India
Burial
Delhi
HouseTimurid
FatherShah Jahan
MotherQandahari Begum
ReligionSunni Islam

Parhez Banu Begum (Persian: پرهز بانو بیگم; 21 August 1611 – 19 October 1675) was a Mughal princess, the first child and eldest daughter of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan from his first wife, Qandahari Begum. She was also the older half-sister of her father's successor, the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

Life

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Parhez was born on 21 August 1611 in Agra to Prince Khurram (the future emperor Shah Jahan) and his first wife Kandahari Begum. She was named 'Parhez Banu Begum' (Persian: "the abstinent Princess")[1] by her paternal grandfather, Emperor Jahangir. However, in the Maasir-i-Alamgiri, she is referred to as Purhunar Banu Begum.[2] Her father, Prince Khurram, was the third son of Emperor Jahangir, while her mother, Kandahari Begum, was a princess of the prominent Safavid dynasty of Iran (Persia) and was a daughter of Sultan Muzaffar Husain Mirza Safavi (who was a direct descendant of Shah Ismail I).[3]

Parhez was Shah Jahan's first child and his eldest daughter and was brought up by the Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, who had been Emperor Akbar's first wife,[4] and who had also brought up her father, Shah Jahan till the age of 13.[5]

Although her mother was not Shah Jahan's favourite wife, nonetheless, she was loved by her father; who had earnestly requested his daughter, Jahanara Begum (his eldest daughter from Mumtaz Mahal) on his deathbed, to look after Parhez. She was also loved and well-cared for by her younger half-brother, Aurangzeb.[2]

Death

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Perhez died on 19 October 1675 in Delhi. The nobles of the subah buried her in the mausoleum (garden) built by her.[6]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Fraser, James (1742). The History of Nadir Shah: Formerly Called Thamas Kuli Khan, the Present Emperor of Persia. ... At the End is Inserted, a Catalogue of about Two Hundred Manuscripts in the Persic and Other Oriental Languages, Collected in the East. By James Fraser. W. Strahan. p. 29.
  2. ^ a b Sarker, Kobita (2007). Shah Jahan and his paradise on earth : the story of Shah Jahan's creations in Agra and Shahjahanabad in the golden days of the Mughals (1. publ. ed.). Kolkata: K.P. Bagchi & Co. p. 187. ISBN 9788170743002.
  3. ^ Nicoll, Fergus (2009). Shah Jahan. New Delhi: Viking. p. 64. ISBN 9780670083039.
  4. ^ Findly, Ellison Banks (1993). Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN 9780195360608.
  5. ^ Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan (1999). The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Translated by Thackston, Wheeler M. Oxford University Press. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-19-512718-8.
  6. ^ Sarkar, Jadunath (1947). Maasir-i- Alamgiri.
  7. ^ a b Beale, Thomas William; Keene, Henry George (1894). An Oriental Biographical Dictionary. p. 309.
  8. ^ a b Mehta, J.l. (1986). Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India. p. 418.
  9. ^ a b Singh, Nagendra Kr (2001). Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: Muh-R. p. 427.
  10. ^ a b Mehta (1986, p. 374)
  11. ^ a b Mukherjee, Soma (2001). Royal Mughal Ladies and Their Contributions. Gyan Books. p. 128. ISBN 978-8-121-20760-7.
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