Jahanara Begum
Padshah Begum and Mughal Princess (1614-1681)
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At seventeen, when her mother died, she became First Lady of the Mughal Empire — holding the royal seal, outranking her father's three living wives, and wielding more political power than any woman in the realm. She bet everything on the wrong brother in a succession war, lost, and spent nine years nursing her deposed father under house arrest before the vic
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Jahanara Begum was born 23 March 1614, second child of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. When her mother died in 1631, the seventeen-year-old was named Padshah Begum and given charge of the imperial seal — her father's favorite, the most powerful woman in the empire. She threw her weight behind her brother Dara Shikoh as successor, but when Shah Jahan fell ill in 1657 a war of succession erupted. Jahanara sided with Dara; Aurangzeb won, placed their father under house arrest in Agra Fort, and stripped her of the title in favor of their younger sister Roshanara. She stayed with Shah Jahan until his…
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