Background
She was a descendant of the lines of highest Central Asian aristocracy: Timur through his son Miran Shah, and Genghis Khan through his son Chagatai Khan.
She was a descendant of the lines of highest Central Asian aristocracy: Timur through his son Miran Shah, and Genghis Khan through his son Chagatai Khan.
Her name means literally "princess with a Face like a Flower" in Persian. Her mother was Dildar Begum and she was the sister of Hindal Mirza and Gulbadan Begum. When Princess Gulbadan was born her father had been lord in Kabul for sometime.
He was master also in Kunduz and Badakhshan, had held Bajaur and Swat since 1519, and Qandahar for a year.
During those years he had been styled "padshah", in token of headship of the house of Timur and of his independent sovereignty. Later Babur set out on his last expedition across the Indus to conquer an empire in India.
She accompanied Gulbadan and Hamida to India in 1557 and died in the same year.