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{{Infobox royalty
|name = Nizam Bai
|title =
|image =
|caption =
|succession =
|reign =
|reign-type =
|spouse = [[Bahadur Shah I]]
|issue = [[Jahandar Shah]] <br> Azz-ud-din
|full name =
|house = [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] ''(by marriage)''
|father = Fatehyawar Jang
|mother =
|birth_date = {{circa}}1643
|birth_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Qutb Shahi dynasty|Golconda Sultanate]]
|death_date = {{death year and age|1692|1643}}
|death_place = [[Delhi]], [[Mughal Empire]]
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|religion = [[Islam]]
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'''Nizam Bai''' ({{circa}}1643 – 1692) was a wife of the seventh [[Mughal Emperors|Mughal emperor]], [[Bahadur Shah I]]. Though she never reigned as empress, having died several years before her husband ascended the throne, her son eventually succeeded as the Emperor [[Jahandar Shah]].

==Background==
There are differing accounts regarding Nizam Bai's origins. [[England|English]] traveller Jack Hogg described her as "a dancing-girl in the house of a [[Nawab]]."<ref name=LalP28>{{cite book|first=Muni|last=Lal|title=Mini Mughals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_z5uAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Konark Publishers|page=28|isbn=9788122001747}}</ref> Alternatively, author Muni Lal found it more likely that she belonged to a noble family from [[Hyderabad]]. He stated that her father, Fatehyawar Jang, fought for [[Aurangzeb]] in the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] wars against the [[Deccan sultanates]]. Nizam Bai's marriage was supposedly done in recognition of this service.<ref name=LalP29>{{harvtxt|Lal|1989|p=29}}</ref>

==Life==
Nizam Bai was married at the age of seventeen to Aurangzeb's son Prince Muazzam (the later Emperor [[Bahadur Shah I]]) on March 12, 1660. The couple's son, the eventual Emperor [[Jahandar Shah]], was born little over a year afterwards.<ref name=LalP28/>

She reportedly had great influence over her husband at one stage, though involved herself little in political matters. Much of her interests were instead focused on the arts, religion and charity, with a large portion of her incomes being used to provide [[Dowry system in India|dowries]] for disadvantaged girls.<ref name=LalP29/>

Nizam Bai died in [[Delhi]] in 1692, her death being greatly mourned by the Emperor and other members of the royal family.<ref name=LalP29/>

==References==
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