We may here conveniently describe Aurangzib's wives and children.Aurangzib's
wives: Dilras Banu. Dilras
Banu, his consort, bore the high
title of Begam or Princess. She
died at Aurangabad on 8th
October, 1657, from illness following child-birth,[1]
and was buried in that city, under the title
of 'the Rabia of the Age' (Rabia-ud-daurani.)
Her tomb was repaired by her son Azam under
order of Aurangzib, and is one of the sights of
the place. She seems to have been a proud and
self-willed lady and her husband stood in some awe of her.[2]
The Emperor's secondary wives were styled Báis and Mahals. To this class Nawab Bai. belonged Rahmat-un-nissa, surnamed Nawab Bai, the mother of Bahadur Shah I. She was the daughter of Rajah Raju of the Rajauri State in Kashmir, and came of the hill-Rajput blood.[3] But on her son's accession to the throne of Delhi a false pedigree was invented for her in order to give Bahadur Shah a right to call himself a Syed. It was asserted by the flatterers of the Imperial Court that a Muslim