Hayat Bakshi Begum

Hayat Bakshi Begum
Died26 February 1667
Burial
Qutb Shahi tombs
SpouseSultan Muhammad Qutb Shah
Issue3, including Abdullah Qutb Shah
FatherMuhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Hayat Bakshi Begum (died 26 February, 1667) was the royal consort of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah, the sixth ruler of the Qutb Shai Dynasty in south India and daughter of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, fifth Sultan of the dynasty.[1] When her son Abdullah Qutb Shah was made sultan at the age of fourteen in 1626, she acted as regent for the first few years of his reign, and continued to wield considerable influence in the state until her death.[2]

  1. ^ Nanisetti, Serish (2019). Golconda/Bagnagar/Hyderbad (1st ed.). Hyderabad: Serish Nanisetti. p. 71. ISBN 9789353518813.
  2. ^ Haig, Thomas Wolseley (1907). Historic Landmarks of the Deccan. Allahabad, Printed at the Pioneer Press. pp. 62–63.