Amina Begum

Amina Begum
Nawabzadi of Bengal
Portrait of Amina Begum from Banglar Begum (1912)
DiedNovember 1760
Jahangirnagar, Bengal Subah (now Old Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Burialc. 1760
SpouseZain ud-Din Ahmed Khan
IssueIkram ud-Daulah
Siraj ud-Daulah
HouseAfshar (by birth)
FatherNawab Alivardi Khan
MotherSharf-un-Nisa (sister of Sayyid Ahmed Najafi and daughter of Sayyid Hussain Najafi)
ReligionShia Islam

Amina Begum (Bengali: আমিনা বেগম, Persian: امینه بیگم) was a Bengali aristocrat from the Nawab family of Bengal and mother of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal.[1]

  1. ^ Khan, Abdul Majed (2007). The Transition in Bengal, 1756–75: A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan. Cambridge University Press. p. 20. ISBN 9780521049825.

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