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Sultan Jahan, Begum of Bhopal
Nawab Begum of Bhopal ( – )
Sultan JahanGCSI GCIE GBE GCStJ CI (9 July – 12 May ) was the ruling Begum of Bhopal between and [1][2][3]
Biography
Early life
Sarkar Amman[4] known better as Sultan Jahan, was born at Bhopal, the elder and only surviving child of Nawab Begum Sultan Shah Jahan and her husband Baqi Muhammad Khan Bahadur (–).
In , she was proclaimed heiress apparent to the Bhopal musnaid following the death of her grandmother, Sikander Begum and her mother's succession to the throne. In , Sultan Jahan succeeded her mother at her death, becoming Nawab Begum of Dar-ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal.
Nawab Begum
A great reformer in the tradition of her mother and grandmother, she was a member of Bharat Stree Mahamandal (The Great Circle of Indian Women) which promoted girls education.[5] Sultan Jahan founded several important educational institutions in Bhopal, establishing f