Gul-Badan Begam (Princess Rose-Body) was a daughter of Zahru-d-din Muhammad Babar, in whom were united the lines of highest Central Asian Aristocracy - namely, that of Timur the Turk, through his son Miran-Shah and that of Chinghiz, the Mughal, through his son Changhatai.<-p>
The little history which is reproduced in the book has few, if any, compeers in as much as it is the work of a lady and lights up her woman`s world. The book is its sole witness, for no one speaks of it. It is not literature, but a simple setting down of what she knew or had heard, for the help of Akbarnama. This was not her only composition, for she followed the fashion of her day and wrote verses.<-p>
