Though not taken as completely authentic, but by all means genuine, Wikipedia too says the same. It is a work of fiction and imagination only. Jodha never existed.
During Mughal rule in India(infact all Muslim rulers), it was common for the Muslim rulers to marry Hindu princesses. The idea was very simple. Whenever the Muslim kings won any war or battle, they could not immediately annexe the defeated state into their kingdom as popular support from the people and ranks and file locally would be against them. So what they did is appoint the defeated king (or his relative) as the continuing administrator for that state. But they always had a doubt as to what if this defeated king were to again muster enough resources and courage and rebel against them? so they came out with a rather ingenious solution, they would take daughters/sisters of these defeated kings as hostage, convert them to islam add them to their harem and take them away to delhi. So the local administrator would remain loyal to the muslim ruler. So there is nothing for the current Jodhpur royal family to feel proud that one of their ancestor was akbar's wife. In fact they should feel sad that one of their ancestor was forced into conversion and marry an old man who had 30 wives. All this 'great romance' stories between akbar and jodha are purely figments of imagination of our own leftist, 'politically correct' & 'historically wrong' historians like Romilla Thapar & Co. Infact she has gone to the extent of painting Aurangzeb as a highly tolerant king who respected Hinduism as much as Islam. This Jodha story is nothing compared that isn't it?
RE:To put it in perspective
by Amrit Patil on Feb 06, 2008 05:20 PM
Mughals gone, they did aasih like any thing, kept spare stepnies in bulk ammount. Produce N number of legal & illeagal Janta & now total asia is facing poverty problems & fighting for their existance.
RE:To put it in perspective
by Anil singh on Feb 06, 2008 05:17 PM
Very true buddy....I am fully agree with U...its a national shame that our ancestors were forced to give their daughters to barbarian mughals...and Today many people feel proud about it.
RE:To put it in perspective
by veena R on Feb 06, 2008 05:35 PM
simply great n 100% fact n that is the truth.
i dont know why eveybody hides the truth and present the fact in diffirent way absolutely and misguide the public and future generation as well. in north side they not even left single temples n south all temple were looted. why dont they make a film on that? may be scared of osama bin laden, right?!!
RE:To put it in perspective
by on Feb 25, 2008 04:35 PM
actually i tell u neo that thier were not 30 wives of akbar they were only like personal maids to keep him gud. and yes jodha was not converted in his husbands religon actually when i visited akbar's tomb in pakistan there were paintings of lord krishna and guide told that it was specially made for akbar's bagam means jodha. and one thing more history sometimes is not true bcause thier workers only write those things that were liked by their kings bcause they dunno want to get killed.
RE:To put it in perspective
by Golden on Feb 06, 2008 05:28 PM
thanks mr. nonsense. yes your story makes sense only to those who have got no sense. i am sorry, it doesnt make me any sense, yes you can be another good story teller but only fake stories. after all you are a non-sense.
i cant tell about this fact if existed or not ,no one bothers about history expect school children or college goers .then how can you describe it?"this kind o f movies could be :"average. okay,little bit nice.
Bhaiya dont look the history of India, Public pagal ho gayi hai, development, growth side main rah gayi hai aur public Jodhabai ki talash kar rahi hai. Anarkali thi ya nahi, Delhi main ladkiyon ko aaj bhi cheda jata hai. Salim ho na ho aaj bhi mumbai main bhiya bol ke ladai hoti hai. Sudhar jao desh walon warna puri History change ho jayegi, Map main India nahi milega aur sab milega
In 1984 a tourist gudie in Agra explained the confusion about who was Jodhabai. He told us that while Akbar's wife was known as Jodhabai, his son Jehangir's wife, who had a chamber named after her at the Agra Fort, was called Jodhbai. A little difference in the way they are spelt -- Jodhbai and Jodhabai. This tourist's version may not be the truth but I can remember a mahal dedicated to Jodhabai in Fatehpur Sikri and another for Jodhbai in the Agra Fort. Anyone has any details on this?
RE:Jodhbai and Jodhabai
by sanjeev shrivastava on Feb 06, 2008 05:09 PM
yours is the best explaination.let it rest at that ,before somebody tells us that akbar does not exist and jehgangir was found in the kumbh mela.
RE:Jodhbai and Jodhabai
by Ateev Dang on Feb 06, 2008 05:13 PM
You are right. Infact this is all been a big confusion. Akbar's wife Jodhabai was born in 1542 to Raja Bharmal and got married to Akbar in 1562 and was called Hira Kunwari b4 marraige and changed her name to Mariam uz Zamani and was refered to as Jodhacos she hailed from Jodhpur. Jahangir was married to Rajput women. Manmati who was Raja Mansingh's sister and Jagat Kosain also known as Jodhbai and Jodhi Bibi who was daughter of Raja Uday Singh and 3 years younger to Jahangir. This is where all the confusion has come from.
The indian history from 1200 to 1700 is totally fairy tale nobody has correct info who was rulling where. I also seriousely doubt whether any community called mughal was existed.
