On this day, 26 May 1702 AD. Zeb Un Nisa, the eldest daughter of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, who was serving a life sentence in Salimgarh Fort, died at the age of 64. After his death, he was buried in the Tis Hazari garden outside Kashmiri Gate, but when the railway line was laid in Delhi, his tomb was moved to Akbar's mausoleum at Sikandra along with his maps.
Shahzadi Zeb-un-Nisa Begum was the eldest daughter of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and was the favorite of all his children. As was the custom of royal women in those days, special care was taken in their training. She had a Sufiana genius and often wrote very beautiful Ash'ar in Persian, now that her father Aurangzeb was not fond of music and poetry, she often had to write in secret.
In the early stages of her life, she was very dear to her father, her father Aurangzeb used to take her opinion in every important matter, but with the passage of time, her thoughts started to change and in her 40s she did something like this. His father-in-law Subhani, who did not like it, was so upset that he issued an order to keep his hard-hearted daughter in prison for life.
It is not clear what his account was, but historians say that he had an affair with someone, which upset his father. While some agree that Shahzadi wrote letters to Aurangzeb's rebel son Shahzada Akbar during his rebellion. Whatever the reason, Aurangzeb then confiscated all his wealth and canceled his annual pension of 4 lakhs.
Shahzadi is remembered in history as a poet. His writings were collected under the name Baad-i-Azmarg Diwan-i-Makhfi.
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