Banadi Shehak
{{short description|A female warrior from modern-day Pakistan}}
{{Unreliable sources|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox noble
|name=Banadi Shehak
{{Nastaliq|میرزادی بنادی شہک}}
|house-type=Tribe
|noble family=Rind tribe
|image= Banadi_Baloch.png
|caption=
|residence= Balochistan
|reign=Nobility of Baloch, Rind tribe
|honorific prefix=Mirzadi
|father=Mir Shehak
|wars_and_battles=Battle of Chausa
|occupation=Nobility and Warrior
|CoA=}}
Banadi Shehak (Balochi:{{nq|بنادی شہک}}) was a nobility and female warrior of the 16th century from modern-day Balochistan. She was Mirzadi (Princess) of Rind tribe and sister of Mir Chakar Rind.{{Cite journal |last=Arif |first=Muhammad |date=2021 |title=The Role of Baloch in Restoration of Mughal Dynasty |journal=Pakistan Perspectives |publisher=Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi |volume=26 |issue=2}}{{Cite web|last=Jan|first=Pari|date=April 26, 2020|title=The feminine inspiration: Banadi Baloch|url=https://voiceofbalochistan.pk/blogs/the-feminine-inspiration-banadi-baloch/|url-status=live|access-date=October 7, 2021|website=Voice of Balochistan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422032131/https://voiceofbalochistan.pk/blogs/the-feminine-inspiration-banadi-baloch/ |archive-date=2021-04-22 }}{{Cite web|last=Ali|first=Amjad|date=May 23, 2017|title=The war of Delhi and the heroic role of Banadi Baloch|url=https://www.thebalochnews.com/2017/05/23/war-delhi-heroic-role-banadi-baloch/|url-status=live|access-date=October 7, 2021|website=The Baloch News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528173515/http://www.thebalochnews.com:80/2017/05/23/war-delhi-heroic-role-banadi-baloch/ |archive-date=2017-05-28 }}
She participated in the battle of Chausa, which was a battle between Mughals and Afghans in which Rind tribe was supporting Mughals.{{cite book |title=Mut̤ālaʻah-yi Pākistān |date=1996 |publisher=Pakistan Study Centre, University of Balochistan |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hwduAAAAMAAJ&q=banadi+%22mir+chakar%22 |language=en}} After a fierce battle, Mughals and Rind tribe started retreating from the battlefield, seeing which Shehak broke her bangles by hitting her arms with her knees and came into the battlefield herself with a sword in her hand. She killed many men, until she came in direct combat with Afghan general Sher Shah Suri. Afghan general told her, "you, being a women, keep aside from my way", to which Shehak replied, "You might think that women are the ones who sit at homes, are busy in adornment and in engaging their husbands, but it is not so!".
Rind tribal forces, seeing their Mirzadi (Princess) fighting in the battlefield, stopped retreating and charged once again on the enemy killing 30,000 enemy troops. However, Mughals and Rind tribe ultimately lost the battle.{{cite web |date=May 18, 2022 |title=Sher Shah of Sur |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sher-Shah-of-Sur |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |quote=At the Battle of Chausa on June 26, 1539, he [Sher Shah Suri] defeated the Mughal emperor Humāyūn and ... also suppressed the Baluch chiefs on the northwestern frontier. |accessdate=7 June 2022}} Banadi Shehak died on the same battlefield.