Gulbadan was also said to have been a poet, fluent in both Persian and Turkish. None of her poems have survived. However, there are references to two verses and a quaseeda written by her by the Emperor BhadurShahZafar in his collection of verses as well as some references by Mir TaqiMir. It is unfortunate that a large collection of imperial Mughal archival material which had found its way to lukhnow was destroyed by the Farangis to impose and lend substance to the myth of centuries of foreign rule over Hindustan instead of the ninety years which was actually endured