Shahzadi Gulbadan Begum (c. 1523 – 7 February 1603) was a Mughal Princess, the daughter of Emperor Babur of the Mughal Empire, she is most known as the author of Humayun Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother, Humayun. Unlike some of her contemporary writers, Gulbadan wrote a factual account of what she remembered,without embellishment. What she produced not only chronicles the trials and tribulations of Humayun’s rule, but also gives us a glimpse of life in the Mughal harem. It is the only surviving writing penned by a woman of Mughal royalty in the 16thcentury