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  1. Gulbadan Begum (c. 1523 – 7 February 1603) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. [1] She is best known as the author of Humayun-Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother, Emperor Humayun, which she wrote on the request of her nephew, Emperor Akbar. [2]

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  3. Gulbadan Begum is the first and only woman historian of the Mughal Empire. On an autumn day in 1576, a Mughal princess led a cohort of royal women on an unprecedented voyage to the holy...

  4. Mar 6, 2024 · From musket-wielding empress Nur Jahan to writer Gulbadan Begum, meet the influential women of the early-modern Muslim empire.

  5. Feb 15, 2024 · Meet Princess Gulbadan, the only woman historian of the Mughal Empire. Vagabond Princess, a new book by noted historian Ruby Lal, teleports us into the magnificent Mughal empire seen through the eyes of a royal woman. By Deepthi Sasidharan.

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  6. Gulbadan Banu Begum is a historian whose work is the only surviving history written by a woman in 16th century Mughal India.

  7. Mar 3, 2024 · A shipwreck is unheard of today but would have been a reality that struck terror in the hearts of 16th-century travellers. Yet, Gulbadan Begum, who was stuck in Aden for many months takes it in...

  8. Mar 4, 2024 · Behind the harem walls of the sprawling Mughal fort-palace in Lahore, 64-year-old Princess Gulbadan Begum was intensely writing a commissioned work. Akbar, the third Mughal emperor, a man with...

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