List of the mothers of the Mughal Emperors

This list includes the biological mothers of Mughal Emperors. There were seventeen 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 (Qutlugh Nigar)^[2]	Babur	Turkic-Mongol	Moghulistan
Maham Begum (unknown)^[3]	Humayun	Turkic-Mongol	Khorasan, Timurid dynasty^[4]
Hamida Banu Begum (Hamida Banu)^[5]	Akbar	Persian^[6]	Khorasan, Timurid dynasty
Mariam uz-Zamani (Hira Kunwari Bai)	Jahangir	Hindu	Jaisalmer State
Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani^[7] (Manavati Bai)	Shah Jahan	Hindu	Marwar, Jodhpur State
Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Banu Begum)	Aurangzeb	Persian	Agra, Mughal Empire
Begum Nawab Bai (Anuradha Bai)^[8]	Bahadur Shah I	Hindu^[8]	Rajauri, Kashmir^[8]
Begum Nizam Bai (Nizam)^[9]	Jahandar Shah	Hindu	Hyderabad, Mughal Empire
Sahiba Nizwan Begum (Sahiba Nizwan)^[10]	Farrukhsiyar	Kashmiri Pandit^[10]	Kashmir, Mughal Empire
Raziat un-nisa Begum (Raziat un-nisa)	Rafi ud-Darajat	Turkic-Mongol	Mughal Empire
Nur un-nisa Begum (Nur un-nisa)	Shah Jahan II	Hindu	Mughal Empire
Qudsia ul-Alqab Hazrat Begum (Fakhr un-nisa)^[11]	Muhammad Shah	Hindu	Mughal Empire
Qudsia Begum (Udham Bai)	Ahmad Shah Bahadur	Hindu	Mughal Empire
Anup Bai (Anup)	Alamgir II	Hindu	Mughal Empire
Zinat Mahal (Bilal Kunar)	Shah Alam II	Hindu	Mughal Empire
Qudsia Begum (unknown)	Akbar Shah II	Hindu	Mughal Empire
Qudsia Begum (Lal Bai)	Bahadur Shah II	Hindu	Mughal Empire

References

Bibliography

Begum, Gulbadan (1902). The History of Humayun (Humayun-Nama). Royal Asiatic Society.
Irvine, William, 1840-1911 (1922). Later Mughals. London, Luzac.
Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir (2010). The Tuzuk-I-Jahangiri; Or, Memoirs of Jahangir Translated by Alexander Rogers Edited by Henry Beveridge. General Books LLC. ISBN 978-1-152-49040-6.

External links

Buyers, Christopher. "The Mughal Empire: Genealogy". The Royal Ark. Retrieved 2015-05-15.

Mughal Empire

Emperors	Babur Humayun Akbar Jahangir Shah Jahan Aurangzeb (Alamgir) Muhammad Azam Shah Bahadur Shah I Jahandar Shah Farrukhsiyar Rafi ud-Darajat Shah Jahan II Muhammad Shah Ahmad Shah Bahadur Alamgir II Shah Jahan III Shah Alam II Akbar II Bahadur Shah II

Battles and conflicts	Battle of Panipat (1526) Battle of Khanwa Battle of Ghaghra Siege of Sambhal Battle of Panipat (1556) Battle of Thanesar Siege of Chittorgarh Siege of Ranthambore Battle of Tukaroi Battle of Raj Mahal Battle of Haldighati Battle of Bhuchar Mori Siege of Kandahar Mughal–Safavid War (1622–23) Siege of Orchha Mughal–Safavid War (1649–53) Battle of Samugarh Battle of Khajwa Suppression of Tilpat rebellion Mughal conquest of Chittagong Ahom–Mughal conflicts Siege of Purandhar Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War Mughal–Maratha Wars Siege of Bijapur Siege of Jinji Child's War Siege of Golconda Battle of Karnal Third Battle of Panipat Battle of Buxar Siege of Delhi

Architecture	Taj Mahal Gardens of Babur Fatehpur Sikri Tomb of Salim Chishti Humayun's Tomb Red Fort Lahore Fort Jahangir Mahal Lalbagh Fort Akbar's Tomb Agra Fort Chawk Mosque Shalimar Gardens Achabal Gardens Jahangir's Tomb Bibi Ka Maqbara Badshahi Mosque Shahi Bridge Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta Sheesh Mahal Sunehri Masjid Tipu Sultan Mosque Wazir Khan Mosque more

Adversaries	Ibrahim Lodi Rana Sanga Sher Shah Suri Hemu Maharana Pratap Malik Ambar Gokula Pratapaditya Shivaji Lachit Borphukan Khushal Khattak Sir Josiah Child Guru Gobind Singh Henry Every Nader Shah Hector Munro

Provinces	Bengal Subah

See also	Art Cuisine Culture Flag Gardens Language Military Painting Persians Tribe Weapons Timurid dynasty family tree

Successor states	Marathas Durranis Mysore Sikhs Bengal Awadh Hyderabad Carnatic Rajputs Jats Bangash Pathans Rohilkhand

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