Shahzada Mirza Muhammad Hakim: He was the second son of Mughal emperor Humayun. He ruled Kabul in Afghanistan and often conflicted with his elder brother Emperor Akbar. Mirza Hakim later on mended ways with Emperor Akbar. He is the son of Mah Chuchak Begum. He is known for writing Tajdar-e-Haram.
Mah Chuchak Begum: She was wife of Humayun and Akbar’s step mother. She was ambitious about her own and son, Mirza Mohammad Hakim’s political career. In the year 1554 A.D. Humayun nominated him as the Governor of Kabul under the guidance or charge of Munim Khan.
Mah Chuchak Begum herself threw Ghani, Munim khan’s grandson, out of Kabul and took the task of Kabul’s administration and ruled directly. Ghani khan came back to India and told Akbar the whole story. Akbar sent Munim Khan and the army against Mah Chuchak but she defeated Munim’s powerful army at Jalalabad. She ruled Kabul with the help of his three trustworthy advisers, later all of the three were killed by Akbar.
Mah Chuchak gave political refuge to Shah Abdul Mali (Who belonged to the great Sayyids of Tirmiz) and married her daughter Fakru-n-Nisa to him, which was politically beneficial for her. By using her diplomatic skills and intelligence, she created opportunities in the patriarchal world for herself.
Hamida Banu Begum: She was born in a Persian Shia family. She became a junior wife of Emperor Humayun at the age of 14 and was the mother of the most famous emperor of the Mughal dynasty, Emperor Akbar. She is also known by the title Maryam Makani.
Bega Begum: Bega Begum (1511 – 1582) was the first wife and chief consort of the second Mughal emperor Humayun. She was also known as Haji Begum after she performed the Hajj pilgrimage.
Gulbadan Banu Begum, as she was known, was the daughter of Babur, the first Emperor of the Mughal Empire, the beloved sister of Emperor Humayun, and the esteemed aunt of Emperor Akbar. She is best known as the author of Humayun-Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother, Emperor Humayun which she wrote on the request of her nephew, Emperor Akbar.
She was born in 1523 in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the age of 17, she was married to a Chagatai noble, her cousin, Khizr Khwaja Khan. She spent most of her life in Kabul. On the request of Akber, she came back to India in 1557. She died in 1603.