Zinat-un-Nissa Begum
Zinat-un-Nissa Begum was an influential Mughal princess in the late 1600s and early 1700s
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Durgavati
Queen of Gondwana from 1550 until her death in 1564
Rahima Moosa
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Dilshad Agha
Influential aunt of the ruler of Bijapur in the 1500s
Bubuji Khanum
Queen mother of Bijapur in the 1500s
Mehtab Kaur
First wife and maharani of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire.
Nur Jahan
Ruler of the Mughal Empire (almost all of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and large parts of northern and central India) in the 1600s
Razia Sultana
Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, India in the 1200s and the subcontinent’s first female Muslim ruler.
Jahan Begum
Sultan Jahan Begum was the fourth and last female ruler of Bhopal, a principality in Malwa in Central India, ruling from 1901 until 1926.