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| succession =[[Queen consort]] of [[Ferghana Valley]]<br />
| reign = {{circa}} 1475 – 1492<br />
| spouse =[[Umar Shaikh Mirza II]]<br />
| issue =[[Khanzada Begum]]<br>[[Babur|Babur, Mughal emperor]]<br />
| house =[[Borjigin|House of Borjigin]] ''(by birth)''<br>[[Timurid dynasty|House of Timur]] ''(by marriage)''<br />
| father =[[Yunus Khan]]<br />
| mother = [[Aisan Daulat Begum]]<br />
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| death_date =10 June 1505 (According to Baburnama)<br />
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'''Qutlugh Nigar [[Khanum]]''' (''also spelled Kutlak Nigar Khanum''; d. 1505) was the first wife and chief consort<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=Annemarie Schimmel ; translated by Corinne Attwood ; edited by Burzine K. Waghmar ; with a foreword by Francis|title=The empire of the Great Mughals : history, art and culture|date=2005|publisher=Sang-E-Meel Pub.|location=Lahore|isbn=9781861891853|page=[https://archive.org/details/empireofgreatmug00anne/page/144 144]|edition=Revised|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/empireofgreatmug00anne/page/144}}</ref> of [[Umar Shaikh Mirza II]], the ruler of [[Ferghana Valley]]. She was a princess of [[Moghulistan]] by birth and was a daughter of [[Yunus Khan]], the [[Great Khan]] of [[Moghulistan]].<br />
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She was also the mother of Emperor [[Babur]], the founder of the [[Mughal Empire]] of India.<br />
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==Family and lineage==<br />
Qutlugh Nigar [[Khanum]] was born as a princess of Moghulistan and was the second daughter of Yunus Khan, the Great Khan of Moghulistan, and his chief consort [[Aisan Daulat Begum]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lal|first=Ruby|title=Domesticity and power in the early Mughal world|year=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521850223|pages=69}}</ref> Her paternal grandfather was [[Uwais Khan]], the [[List of Chagatai khans|Moghul Khan]] of Moghulistan and her father's predecessor.<br />
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Qutlugh was a direct descendant of [[Chenghiz Khan]], the founder and [[Great Khan]] (Emperor) of the [[Mongol Empire]] through her father's side. Being the daughter of a Khan, Qutlugh held the title of "[[Khanum]]" ("daughter of a Khan or princess") by birth.<br />
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All of Qutlugh's siblings became her sisters-in-law since her elder sister, [[Mihr Nigar Khanum]], married [[Sultan Ahmed Mirza]], the eldest son of [[Abu Sa'id Mirza]]. Her younger sister, Khub Nigar Khanum, married Sultan Ahmed Mirza's successor, [[Sultan Mahmud Mirza]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Yarshater|first=Ehsan|title=The Cambridge history of Iran.|year=1983|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=London|isbn=9780521246996|pages=119|edition=Repr.|author2=Lockhart, the late Laurence }}</ref><br />
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==Marriage==<br />
Qutlugh married Prince Umar Shaikh, the fourth son of Abu Sa'id Mirza, the [[Emperor]] of the [[Timurid Empire]] in 1475. She was his first wife and chief consort. Before his death, her father-in-law had divided his empire between his sons and Umar was given to rule Ferghana Valley in today's [[Uzbekistan]]. Here, at [[Andizhan]], she gave birth to Umar's eldest son, Prince Babur on 14 February 1483.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Cambridge History of India|publisher=Cambridge University Press Archive|pages=3}}</ref> Babur went on to become the founder of the Mughal Empire of India and was the first Mughal emperor.<br />
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Qutlugh also gave birth to Umar's eldest daughter, Princess [[Khanzada Begum]], who was five years older than Babur and was born sometime in 1478. Qutlugh, being a Mongol princess, was well educated. With the untimely death of her husband, when her son Babur was only ten, Qutlugh and her mother Aisan Daulat Begum, raised him themselves.<ref name=Beveridge>{{cite book|last=Beveridge|first=Annette Susannah|title=Babur Nama : Journal of Emperor Babur|year=2006|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9780144001491|pages=13, 25|edition=1.publ.}}</ref> She accompanied her son during most of his guerrilla expeditions and throne-less times.<ref name=Beveridge/><br />
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==Death==<br />
Qutlugh Nigar had fever for six days and died in June 1505, five or six months after Babur conquered [[Kabul]]. She, therefore, did not live to see her son become Mughal emperor. She was buried in New Year's Garden. Babur paid 1,000 coined ''misqal'' to his kinsmen, the owners of the garden, and laid her there.<br />
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