[2] In late 1635 or early 1636, she played a key role in a palace coup in which a minister, Khawas Khan, was deposed.
Following her husband's death in 1656, she became regent of the Bijapur Sultanate for his son and heir Ali Adil Shah II who was still a minor.
Rumors began circulating that he was illegitimate, which was taken as an excuse by the Mughal emperor to invade the Bijapur Sultanate.
It was exceptional, not only because members of Indian dynasties often only used their own ships on their way to Mecca, but also because she, as a Muslim woman, travelled with non-Muslim men.
The Dutch East India Company employee and travel writer Johan Nieuhof noted her intelligence as it appeared from her dictating letters in various languages.