“I look on this girl as a sister and child of my own,” he is believed to have said. Not because, as some stories and texts say, he was in love with her – but because he was concerned about the family name. On hearing that she was not, he expressed the desire to marry her. As soon as Humayun saw Hamida Bano, he asked his stepmother Dildar, “Who is this?” He was mesmerised by the beauty and liveliness of the teenager and asked if she was already betrothed. Hamida’s father Sheikh Ali Akbar, a Persian sufi more popularly known as Mir Baba Dost, was Hindal’s spiritual instructor, and there was a close bond between him and the family. Humayun’s stepmother Dildar Bano, who was Hindal’s mother, gave a banquet in his honour and among the guests she invited, was the beautiful Hamida. Having been defeated by Sher Shah Suri in the battle of Kannauj, Humayun was on the run – he had lost the kingdom his father Babur had established in India and along with his half brother Hindal, he took refuge with Shah Hussain, the Sultan of Thatta in Sind.Īfter many days spent travelling through perilous and desolate deserts, they had finally found some peace. Hamida Bano was a 14-year-old when Humayun Badshah, 33, met her in Pat, a town in Sehewan in the kingdom of Thatta, in 1541. In Bihar’s ‘first solar village’, the solar power station has become a makeshift cattle shed.Conspiracy for Punjab sacrilege case was hatched at Ram Rahim’s Dera Sacha Sauda, say police.‘It’s inhumane’: How a clunky US visa system has kept Indian H-1B holders away from their families.Eco India, Episode 134: Modern day home owners in Tamil Nadu look to the past to build eco homes.What happens when a classical musician gets off the concert stage to perform at a site of activism?.
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