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Did a Jodha Bai ever exist, ask historians
This story is from September 16, 2006
Former chairman of ICHR, Prof Irfan Habib says there was no historical character called Jodha Bai.
These are some of the questions that film-maker Ashutosh Gowariker will have to answer when he sets out to shoot his magnum opus Jodhaa Akbar starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai.
Who was Jodha Bai? Indeed, if she existed at all, it was as Akbar's daughter-in-law (she was married to Jahangir) and not his wife! But, if you go by folktales and K Asif's classic Mughal-e-Azam, she was Amber ruler Raja Bharmal's daughter and Akbar's wife.
Here is what some of the country's top historians have to say: Asserts renowned historian and former chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research, Prof Irfan Habib, There was not any historical character called Jodha Bai.
It’s true that Akbar married Amber ruler Raja Bharmal's eldest daughter but her name
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Why is the story of Akbar’s Christian wife absent in Mughal, Portuguese and English sources?
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While substantial amount of the matter is available on Akbar’s harem, it is a wonder why Mughal sources are completely silent on this particular union. The most noteworthy document of Akbar’s reign, the Akbarnama written by Abul Fazl, makes no mention about her, nor is her existence acknowledged in the other great Mughal source, Al Badauni’s Muntakhab-ut-Tawarakh. “Given the strenuous relations between the Mughals and Portuguese, they would never dare to say that Akbar had a Christian wife,” says Correia.
When the Portuguese initiated trade practices in India in the fifteenth century, large parts of northern India was under Mughal rule and the Muslim power was trying its best to expand into the Deccan. The result of European contact with Mughals in the Deccan led to large scale clashes. The Portuguese capture of Goa under Afonso de Alburquerque in 1510 marked the beginning of the most difficult phase of Portuguese-Mughal relations. “Of all the European traders, the Portuguese were least liked by the Indians. Called ‘the Portuguese menace’ and associated by all Asians w
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