Juliana Dias da Costa

Biography:

Donna Juliana Dias da Costa was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I Aurangzeb's son who became the monarch in the year 1707. Dona Juliana's family fled the Dutch conquest of Portuguese Kochi. She herself ended up in the Mughal court at Delhi serving the family of the then prince Shah’Alam.