List of mothers of the Mughal emperors information
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This list includes the biological mothers of Mughal emperors. There were nineteen emperors of the Mughal Empire in thirteen generations.[1] Throughout the 331-year history of the Mughal Empire the emperors were all members of the same house, the house of Timurid.
Name (birth name)
Son
Ethnicity
Place of origin
Qutlugh Nigar Khanum[2]
Babur
Turkic-Mongol
Moghulistan, Chagatai Khanate
Maham Begum[3]
Humayun
Turkic-Mongol
Khorasan, Persia
Hamida Banu Begum (Maryam Makani)[4]
Akbar
Persian
Khorasan, Persia
Wali Nimat Mariam-uz-Zamani[5]
Jahangir
Rajput
Amber, Mughal Empire
Manavati Bai (Bilqis Makani)[6]
Shah Jahan
Rajput
Marwar, Mughal Empire
Arjumand Banu Begum (Mumtaz Mahal)
Aurangzeb
Persian
Agra, Mughal Empire
Rabia-ud-Daurani (Dilras Banu Begum)
Azam Shah
Safavid Persian
Mughal Empire
Nawab Bai (Rahmat-un-Nissa)[7]
Bahadur Shah I
Kashmiri Muslim
Rajauri, Kashmir[8]
Nizam Bai[9]
Jahandar Shah
Hyderabadi Muslims
Hyderabad, Golconda Sultanate
Sahiba Niswan Begum[10]
Farrukhsiyar
Kashmiri[10]
Kashmir, Mughal Empire
Nur-un-Nissa Begum
Rafi ud-Darajat
Persian
Khurasan, Persia
Qudsia ul-Alqab Hazrat Begum (Fakhr un-nisa)[11]
Muhammad Shah
Muslim
Mughal Empire
Qudsia Begum (Udham Bai)
Ahmad Shah Bahadur
Shia Islam[12]
Mughal Empire
Anup Bai
Alamgir II
Hindu
Mughal Empire
Rushqimi Begum
Shah Jahan III
Muslim
Mughal Empire
Zinat Mahal (Bilal Kunar)
Shah Alam II
Hindu
Mughal Empire
Qudsia Begum (unknown)
Akbar Shah II
Muslim
Mughal Empire
Lal Bai
Bahadur Shah II
Hindu
Mughal Empire
^Mughal Genealogical Table
^Gulbadan 1902, p. 272.
^Gulbadan 1902, p. 256.
^Gulbadan 1902, p. 237.
^Jahangir 1909, pp. 77–78.
^Jahangir 1909, p. 19.
^Irvine 1922, pp. 1–2.
^Irvine 1922, p. 2.
^Irvine 1922, p. 141.
^ abIrvine 1922, p. 342.
^Irvine 1922, p. 146.
^Nath & Nath 2018, pp. 93–94.
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