Empress Ruqaiya is a main character in Indu Sundaresan's award-winning historical novel, The Twentieth Wife (2002), as well as in its sequel, The Feast of Roses (2003).
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Salima was therefore a first cousin to Emperor Akbar and to his first wife Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, as both of them were the children of her maternal uncles: Humayun and Hindal Mirza, respectively.