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Hamida Banu Begum
Hamida Banu Begum was a wife of Mughal emperor Humayun and the mother of emperor Akbar. She married Humayun in 1541 and later held the honorific Maryam Makani. She should not be confused with Humayun’s senior widow Bega Begum.
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Hamida Banu Begum, widow of Humayun and mother of Akbar, died in 1604. She is traditionally said to be buried in Humayun's Tomb in Delhi, although an archaeological survey notes that the individual graves around Humayun are uninscribed and cannot be identified with certainty. The consulted sources do not establish her cause of death.
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