Amina Begum

Amina Begum (Bengali: আমিনা বেগম, Persian: امینه بیگم) was a Bengali aristocrat from the Nawab family of Bengal and mother of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal.

Amina Begum
Nawabzadi of Bengal
Portrait of Amina Begum from Banglar Begum (1912)
DiedNovember 1760
Jahangirnagar, Bengal Subah (now Old Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Burialc.1760
Khushbagh, Murshidabad, Bengal Subah (presently in West Bengal, India)
SpouseZain ud-Din Ahmed Khan
IssueIkram ud-Daulah
Siraj ud-Daulah
HouseAfshar (by birth)
FatherNawab Alivardi Khan
MotherSharf-un-Nisa (sister of Sayyid Ahmed Najafi and daughter of Sayyid Hussain Najafi)
ReligionShia Islam
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