List of Mughal empresses

This is a list of Mughal empresses. Most of these empresses were either from branches of the Timurid dynasty, from the royal houses or families of Persian nobles. Alongside Mughal emperors, these empresses played a role in the building up and rule of the Mughal Empire in South Asia, from the early 16th century to the early 18th century. The Mughal Empire mainly corresponds in the present day to the modern countries of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Mughal empresses

Name	Parent(s)	Birth name	Origin	Place of Origin	Marriage	Spouse
Aisha Sultan Begum[1]	Sultan Ahmed Mirza and Qutak Begum	unknown	Timurid	Samarqand	1499	Babur
Zainab Sultan Begum[2]	Sultan Ahmed Mirza and Khanzada Begum	unknown	Timurid	Samarqand	1504
Maham Begum[3]	unknown	unknown	Persian		1506
Masuma Sultan Begum[4]	Sultan Ahmed Mirza and Habiba Sultan Begum	unknown	Timurid	Samarqand	1507
Bibi Mubarika[5]	Malik Shah Mansur Yusufzai	unknown	Pashtun	unknown	1519
Bega Begum[6]	Yadgar Beg	unknown	Persian	Khorasan	1527	Humayun
Hamida Banu Begum[7]	Shaikh Ali Akbar Jami and Mah Afroz Begum	unknown	Persian	unknown	1541
Mah Chuchak Hujur Begum[8]	unknown	unknown	Mongol	unknown	1546
Ruqaiya Sultan Begum[9]	Hindal Mirza and Sultanam Begum		Timurid	unknown	1556	Akbar
Salima Sultan Begum[10]	Nuruddin Muhammad Mirza and Gulrukh Begum		Naqshbandi	unknown	1561
Mariam-uz-Zamani[11][12][13][14]	Raja Bharmal of Amber and Rani Champavati Gurjar	Harkha Gurjari	Kachhwaha	Amber	1562
Manbhavati Bai[15]	Raja Bhagwant Das of Amber and his Gurjar concubine	Man Bai Gurjari	Kachhwaha	Amber	1585	Jahangir
Jagat Gosain[16]	Raja Udai Singh of Marwar and Rani Kachavat Manrang Gurjar	Manavati Gurjari	Rathore	Jodhpur or Phalodi	1586
Sahib Jamal[17]	Khwaja Hasan	unknown	Turkish	Herat	1586
Malika Jahan[18]	Rawal Bhim Singh Gurjar of Jaisalmer and his Gurjar concubine	unknown	Bhati Gurjar	Jaisalmer	1587
Nur-un-Nissa Begum[19]	Ibrahim Husain Mirza and Gulrukh Begum		Timurid	Khorasan	1593
Khas Mahal	Zain Khan Koka	unknown	Iranian	unknown	1596
Saliha Banu Begum[20]	Qaim Khan	unknown	unknown	unknown	1608
Nur Jahan[21]	Mirza Ghiyas Beg and Asmat Begum	Mehr-un-nissa	Persian	Kandahar	1611
Mihr-un-nissa Begum[22]	Sher Afgan Khan and Nur Jahan	unknown	Turkoman	unknown	1621	Shahryar Mirza
Kandahari Begum[23]	Sultan Muzaffar Husain Mirza Safavi	unknown	Safavid Persian	Kandahar	1610	Shah Jahan
Mumtaz Mahal[24]	Abu'l-Hasan Asaf Khan and Diwanji Begum	Arjumand Banu Begum	Persian	Agra	1612
Akbarabadi Mahal[25]	Mirza Iraj	Izz-un-Nissa	Turkoman	Agra	1617
Dilras Banu Begum[26]	Mirza Badi-uz-Zaman Safavi and Nauras Banu Begum	unknown	Safavid Persian	unknown	1637	Aurangzeb
Nawab Bai[27]	Raja Tajuddin Khan of Rajauri (disputed)	Rahmat-un-Nissa	Jarral	unknown	1638
Aurangabadi Mahal[28]	unknown	unknown	Georgian or Circassian	unknown	unknown
Rahmat Banu Begum[29]	Swargadeo Sutamla of Ahom kingdom and Pakhori Gabharu	Ramani Gabharu	Ahom	Ahom kingdom	1668	Muhammad Azam Shah
Jahanzeb Banu Begum[30]	Dara Shikoh and Nadira Banu Begum	unknown	Timurid	Agra	1669
Shahar Banu Begum[31]	Ali Adil Shah II and Khurshida Khanum	unknown	Adilshahi	Bijapur	1672
Nur-un-Nissa Begum[32]	Mirza Sanjar Khan and Zinat-i-Alam Begum	unknown	Persian	Khorasan	1659	Bahadur Shah I
Imtiaz Mahal[33]	Khasusiyat Khan	Lal Kunwar	unknown	unknown	unknown	Jahandar Shah
Indira Kanwar[34]	Ajit Singh Gurjar of Marwar	Indira Kanwar Gurjari	Bhati Gurjar	Jodhpur	1715	Farrukhsiyar
Badshah Begum[35]	Farrukhsiyar and Gauhar-un-Nissa Begum	unknown	Timurid	Agra	1721	Muhammad Shah
Sahiba Mahal[36]	Sayid Salabat Khan and Safa Begum	unknown	Turkish	unknown	1722
Qudsia Begum[37]	unknown	Udham Bai	unknown	unknown	unknown
Zeenat Mahal[38]	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	1840	Bahadur Shah Zafar