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{{short description|Padshah Begum}}{{Infobox royalty
|consort = yes
| name = Saliha Banu Begum
| title =[[Empress Consort]] of [[Mughal Empire]]
| succession = [[Padshah Begum]]
| predecessor = [[Ruqaiya Sultan Begum]]
| successor = [[Nur Jahan]]
| reign = {{circa}} 1608 – 10 June 1620
| spouse = [[Jahangir]]
| house = [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] (by marriage)
| father = Qaim Khan
| issue =
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date =10 June 1620
| death_place = [[Agra]], [[Mughal Empire]]
| place of burial =
| religion = [[Islam]]
}}

'''Saliha Banu Begum''' ({{lang-fa|صالحہ بانو بیگم}}; died 10 June 1620) was [[Queen consort|Empress consort]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] as the wife of Emperor [[Jahangir]].<ref name="Findly">{{cite book|last1=Findly|first1=Ellison Banks|title=Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India|url=https://archive.org/details/nurjahanempressm00find|url-access=limited|date=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780195360608|page=[https://archive.org/details/nurjahanempressm00find/page/n137 125]}}</ref> She was also known as the Padshah Banu Begum or the Padshah Mahal.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, Volumes 20-21|date=1958|publisher=Numismatic Society of India|page=196|language=en}}</ref>

==Family==
Saliha Banu Begum was the daughter of Qaim Khan,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lal|first1=K.S.|title=The Mughal harem|date=1988|publisher=Aditya Prakashan|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788185179032|page=27}}</ref> and came from a well placed family in the government as her brother, Abdur Rahim (titled Tarbiyat Khan), was said by Jahangir to be "of the hereditary houseborn ones of this Court."<ref name="Findly" /> She was the granddaughter of Muqim Khan, the son of Shuja'at Khan from Akbar's time.{{sfn|Awrangābādī|Prasad|Shāhnavāz|1979|p=925}}

==Marriage==
Jahangir married her in 1608, in the third year of his reign. As a consequence, her brother Abdur Rahim's position greatly advanced. He was awarded with the title of Tarbiyat Khan. His son named Miyan Joh, whom Saliha had taken for her son, was killed at the banks of river Jhelum by [[Mahabat Khan]] when the latter behaved insolently towards Jahangir,{{sfn|Awrangābādī|Prasad|Shāhnavāz|1979|p=926}} in 1626.{{cn|date=September 2020}}

For much of Jahangir's reign, she was the Padishah Banu ("The Sovereign Lady"), also called Padishah Mahal ("Sovereign of the Palace"),<ref>{{cite book|first=M.|last=Abdul Kader|title=Historical Fallacies Unveiled|publisher=İslamic Foundation Bangladesh|year=1988|pages=105}}</ref><ref name="sudha">{{cite book|first=Sudha|last=Sharma|title=The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India|publisher=SAGE Publications India|date=March 21, 2016|pages=144, 209|isbn=978-9-351-50567-9}}</ref> and when she died in 1620, the title was passed on to [[Nur Jahan]].<ref name="Findly" /> She was, reportedly, Nur Jahan's only powerful rival for Jahangir's affections.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India)|title=Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|date=1 January 1932|volume=25|page=62|publisher=Asiatic Society.|language=en}}</ref> Williams Hawkins, a representative of the [[English East India Company]] noted her among Jahangir's chief wives. He said the following:

{{quote|Hee (Jahangir) hath .... three hundred wives whereof four be chiefe as queenes, to say, the first, named Padasha Banu, daughter to Kaime Chan (Qaim Khan); the second is called Noore Mahal ([[Nur Jahan]]), the daughter of Gais Beyge ([[Mirza Ghiyas Beg]]); the third is the daughter of Seinchan ([[Zain Khan Koka]]); the fourth is the daughter of Hakim Humaun ([[Mirza Muhammad Hakim]]), who was brother to his father Ekber Padasha ([[Akbar]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Sir William|last=Foster|title=Early travels in India, 1583-1619|publisher=AMS Press|year=1975|pages=100–101|isbn=978-0-404-54825-4}}</ref>}}

Saliha Banu Begum was reportedly to be well versed in Hindi poetry.<ref name="sudha"/>

==Death==
Saliha Banu Begum died on Wednesday, 10 June 1620.<ref>{{cite book|first=Emperor |last=Jahangir|first2=Wheeler McIntosh|last2=Thackston|title=The Jahangirnama : memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha |publisher=Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Oxford University Press|year=1999|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/340 340]}}</ref> Jahangir noted that Saliha Banu's death was foretold by the astrologer Jotik Rai; grief-stricken at her loss, he nevertheless marvelled at the accuracy of the prophecy, which had been taken from his own horoscope.<ref name="Findly" />

==See also==
*[[Padshah Begum]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{Cite book|first=Shāhnavāz Khān|last=Awrangābādī|first2=Bani|last2=Prasad|first3='Abd al-Hayy ibn|last3=Shāhnavāz|title=The Maāthir-ul-umarā: being biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D.|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|year=1979}}

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