Name: Gwalior Fort
Address: Gwalior Fort, South Asia

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Roshanara Begum

Roshanara Begum (3 September 1617 – 11 September 1671) was a Mughal princess and poet, the third daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. She saved her brother Aurangzeb by warning him of their father's plot against him, and on his accession he made her Padshah Begum in her sister Jahanara's place, the most powerful woman of the empire — until she fell from favour, was stripped of her powers and ordered into pious seclusion in her garden palace outside Delhi, where she is buried in the Roshanara Bagh she commissioned.

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