page_title: Nadira Banu Begum
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Nadira Banu Begum / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Outside view of Nadira Begum's tomb during winter This is a photo of a monument in Pakistan identified as the PB-72
context_page_description: Nadira Banu Begum was a Mughal princess and the wife of Crown prince Dara Shikoh, the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. After Aurangzeb's rise to power, Dara Shikoh's immediate family and all of his supporters were in grave danger. Nadira died in 1659, few months before her husband's execution, and was survived by two sons and a daughter.
context_section_description: Nadira Begum died on 6 June 1659 of dysentery while she was accompanying her husband and family in Bolan Pass, Pakistan. She had been faithful and devoted to her husband during the hardships in his life and had shared in all his wanderings. Her death drew Dara into such a frantic state of grief that his own fate appeared a matter of indifference to him.
  Nadira's last wish was to be buried in India, and without considering the consequences of her request, Dara sent his deceased wife's corpse to Lahore in charge of his soldiers to be buried there. The princess' tomb was built next to Mian Mir's tomb in Lahore, Pakistan, who had been the spiritual instructor of Dara Shikoh.
caption: Outside view of Nadira Begum's tomb during winter
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