The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 3.4.7

3.4.7

Two Timurid ladies, Fakhr-jahan and Khadija, both paternal aunts of the Emperor, had gone to Hindustan so early as November, 1527. With whom they went or why they went is not recorded. The first was the wife of a Tirmizi Sayyid, member of a religious family with which royal alliance was frequent, and she would find relations of her husband in the army. The second, Khadija, has no man mentioned as her husband, an omission by Babar and Gulbadan which surprises, and which the chance word of another writer may easily fill up. Perhaps these aunts joined their nephew in response to his invitation of April, 1526, that kinsfolk and friends would come and see prosperity with him. They brought their children, and were met outside the city by Babar on November 23rd, and by him conducted in a lucky hour to their assigned palaces in Agra. Fakhr-jahan and Khadija stayed eleven months and were bidden good-bye before their return journey to Kabul on September 26th, 1528. After all, Khadija did not go, having affairs of her own to detain her, and this delay allowed the Emperor to pay her another of the Friday calls which he habitually made, during the time of his occupation of Hindustan, on his elder kinswomen. On the 17th three sisters of Fakhr-jahan and Khadija arrived in the suburbs and were welcomed. From all these Babar could hear the news and gossip of Kabul, and thus add to the impressions which led to his order for the begams to join him in India.