Personal Life
Shamshad Begum was born in Amritsar on April 14, 1919, the day after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in a Muslim family and had seven siblings. Her father was Miya Hussain Baksh worked as a mechanic and her mother was extremely conservative. She fell in love with Ganpat Lal Batto, a lawyer, in 1932 and, despite family objections, married him at the age of 15 in 1934. She had one daughter, Usha Ratra, who is married to Lieutenant Colonel Yogesh Ratra. Begum's husband died in 1955 in an accident. Since her husband's death, Begum has lived with her daughter and son-in-law in Mumbai, recently at Hiranandani Gardens in the Powai district.
In around 2004, a controversy erupted in the media, when several publications gave the false news of her death, before it was clarified that the Shamshad Begum who had died in 1998 was Saira Banu's grandmother with the same name.
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