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Jehangir’s mom was Portuguese Christian, maybe Jodha Bai never existed: New book
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 sc
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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.
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Was there ever a Jodha Bai?
LUCKNOW: Poetic or creative licence is all very well but can you 'create your own history' or push cinematic liberty to the extreme where you end up peddling romanticised folklore as a slice of history?
What do you do when there are doubts over the very existence of the character that you hope to recreate on celluloid? These are some questions that filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker will have to answer when he sets out to shoot his magnum opus JodhaaAkbarstarring 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 bygd folktales and K Asif's classic Mughal-e-Azam, she was Amber ruler Raja Bharmal’s daughter and Akbar’s wife.
Asserts renowned historian and former chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research, Prof Ir