History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c7.15

v1.c7.15

The Emperor’s secondary wives were styled Báis and Mahals. To this class 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.[‡] 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