[1] Lutfunnisa, originally named Rajkunwari, was a Brahmin girl who served Begum Sharifun nissa, Siraj ud-Daulah's maternal grandmother.

After the Battle of Plassey, which saw the British East India Company defeat Siraj and his French allies, Lutfunnisa escaped the palace with him and their daughter.

[3] Soon after the killing of Siraj, all of the women of the house of his maternal grandfather, Alivardi Khan, were either poisoned or rowed out into the centre of the Hooghly river and drowned by sinking of their boat.

She was confined there for seven years[citation needed] during which time Mir Jafar and his son each asked for her hand in marriage.

In March 1787, she petitioned the British East India Company to increase her pension so to meet the additional cost of four grandchildren.

In 2018–19 an historical soap opera based on the novel, and also called Ami Sirajer Begum, was broadcast on Star Jalsha, in which Lutfunnisa was portrayed by Pallavi Dey.