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'''Badshah Begum''' ({{circa}} 1703 – 14 December 1789) was [[Empress consort]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] from 8 December 1721 to 6 April 1748 as the first wife and chief consort of the Mughal emperor [[Muhammad Shah]].<ref name="Sarkar97">{{cite book|last1=Sarkar|first1=Jadunath|title=Fall of the Mughal Empire.|date=1997|publisher=Orient Longman|location=Hyderabad|isbn=9788125011491|page=169|edition=4th}}</ref> She is popularly known by her title '''Malika-uz-Zamani''' ("Queen of the Age") which was conferred upon her by her husband, immediately after their marriage.<ref name=Malik>{{cite book|last1=Malik|first1=Zahir Uddin|title=The reign of Muhammad Shah, 1719-1748|date=1977|publisher=Asia Pub. House|location=London|isbn=9780210405987|page=407}}</ref> | '''Badshah Begum''' ({{circa}} 1703 – 14 December 1789) was [[Empress consort]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] from 8 December 1721 to 6 April 1748 as the first wife and chief consort of the Mughal emperor [[Muhammad Shah]].<ref name="Sarkar97">{{cite book|last1=Sarkar|first1=Jadunath|title=Fall of the Mughal Empire.|date=1997|publisher=Orient Longman|location=Hyderabad|isbn=9788125011491|page=169|edition=4th}}</ref> She is popularly known by her title '''Malika-uz-Zamani''' ("Queen of the Age") which was conferred upon her by her husband, immediately after their marriage.<ref name=Malik>{{cite book|last1=Malik|first1=Zahir Uddin|title=The reign of Muhammad Shah, 1719-1748|date=1977|publisher=Asia Pub. House|location=London|isbn=9780210405987|page=407}}</ref> | ||
Badshah Begum was a [[cousin| | Badshah Begum was a [[cousin|second-cousin]] of her husband and was a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal princess]] by birth. She was the daughter of Mughal emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]] and his first wife, Gauhar-un-Nissa Begum. She wielded major political influence in the Mughal court during her husband's reign and was his most influential wife. It was through her efforts that her step-son, [[Ahmad Shah Bahadur]], was able to ascend the Mughal throne.<ref name=Asiatic>{{cite journal|title=Journal and Proceedings|date=1907|pages=16, 360|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jyIYAAAAYAAJ&q=malikah|accessdate=15 September 2017|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal|language=en}}</ref> | ||
==Family and lineage== | ==Family and lineage== | ||
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==Marriage== | ==Marriage== | ||
Muhammad Shah acceded to throne in 1719 and was a son of Prince [[Jahan Shah (Mughal prince)|Jahan Shah]], the youngest son of Emperor [[Bahadur Shah I]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mehta|first1=J. L.|title=Advanced study in the history of modern India, 1707-1813|date=2005|publisher=New Dawn Press, Inc.|location=Slough|isbn=9781932705546|page=24}}</ref> and the younger half-brother of Emperor Farrukhsiyar's father, Prince Azim-ush-Shan. Badshah Begum was therefore, a | Muhammad Shah acceded to throne in 1719 and was a son of Prince [[Jahan Shah (Mughal prince)|Jahan Shah]], the youngest son of Emperor [[Bahadur Shah I]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mehta|first1=J. L.|title=Advanced study in the history of modern India, 1707-1813|date=2005|publisher=New Dawn Press, Inc.|location=Slough|isbn=9781932705546|page=24}}</ref> and the younger half-brother of Emperor Farrukhsiyar's father, Prince Azim-ush-Shan. Badshah Begum was therefore, a second-cousin of her husband through her father's side. She married Muhammad Shah on 8 December 1721<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awrangābādī|first1=Shāhnavāz Khān|last2=Prashad|first2=Baini|last3=Shāhnavāz|first3=ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn|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.|date=1979|publisher=Janaki Prakashan|page=652|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfG1AAAAIAAJ&q=muhmmad+shah+8+december+1721|language=en}}</ref> in [[Delhi]]. The marriage was celebrated with great splendour. Accordingly, many of the officers presented [[lakh]]s of [[rupees]] and everyone received a dress of honour and jewels and increase of pay.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Singh|first1=ed. by Nagendra Kr.|title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography : India, Pakistan, Bangladesh|date=2001|publisher=A. P. H. Publishing Corp.|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788176482356|page=10}}</ref> Upon her marriage, Badshah Begum was given the title of Malika-uz-Zamani ("Queen of the Age")<ref>{{cite book|last1=Malik|first1=Zahir Uddin|title=The reign of Muhammad Shah, 1719-1748|date=1977|publisher=Asia Pub. House|location=London|isbn=9780210405987|page=407}}</ref> by which she is popularly known and further, the exalted title of ''[[Padshah Begum]]''. Badshah Begum bore her husband his first son, Shahriyar Shah Bahadur, who died in his childhood. After that, she remained childless.<ref name="Malik" /> | ||
===Empress=== | ===Empress=== | ||
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[[Category:Mughal empresses]] | [[Category:Mughal empresses]] | ||
[[Category:Mughal princesses]] | [[Category:Mughal princesses]] | ||
[[Category:Timurid princesses]] | [[Category:Timurid princesses]] | ||
[[Category:1703 births]] | [[Category:1703 births]] | ||
[[Category:1789 deaths]] | [[Category:1789 deaths]] | ||