Qutluq Nigar Khanum
Qutluq Nigar Khanum, d. 1505, Mughal princess, mother of Empeor Babar (d. 1530). A descendent of Chingiz Khan, she was married to Umar Shaikh Mirza of Ferghana, Central Asia, and gave birth to Babar in 1483. She exercised great influence over the emperor, and accompanied him in all his war and wanderings and lived to see her son victor and master of Kabul (1504). Baba in his autobiography, wrote ‘few of her sex excelled her in sense and sagacity’.
