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Hamida Banu Begum

Hamida Banu Begum (1527-29 August 1604) was the Queen consort of the Mughal Empire as the wife of Emperor Humayun (r. 1530-1540).

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Hamida was born in 1527 to a family of Persian descent; her Shia father served as a teacher to Babur's son Hindal Mirza. Hamida met Prince Humayun at the age of 14 and married him while he was in exile due to the Suri Empire's capture of Delhi, and she gave birth to Jalal-ud-Din and two daughters. She accompanied her husband on his campaigns, although she remained in Kabul at the time of his reconquest of Delhi in 1555. She joined her son Jalal-ud-Din in Delhi in 1557, becoming a major player in politics during her son's reign as emperor; in 1560, she helped him oust the minister Bairam Khan on Akbar reaching an age of adulthood. She died in 1604.

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