In a 1920 edition of the book, the editor William Crooke, quoting Ain-i-Akbari, clarifies that the princess of Jodhpur was married to Jahangir, not Akbar. The name Jodha Bai as the wife of Akbar is mentioned by Col James Tod in his book Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. The ceremony was performed in the house of Her Highness Maryam-zamānī.” “On Sunday, the 26th of the above-mentioned month was held the marriage feast of Parwīz and the daughter of Prince Murād. When he mentions “Maryam-zamānī”, he refers to her deferentially but not as his mother: "When my mother came near the time of her delivery, he sent her to the Shaikh's house that I might be born there." These are the references to his mother (who remains unnamed) in his memoirs: Most historians are of the opinion that Jahangir was born of a concubine and that is why, though he gives a very candid description of his life in his memoirs, The Tuzuknama or Jahangirnama, Jahangir never once mentions the name of his mother, even though he gives the names of many of his and his father's wives. We also don't know if she was Prince Salim's mother or not (Salim ascended the throne as Jahangir). In fact, her name is said to have been Harka Bai/Hira Kunwar, she was the daughter of Raja Bharmal of Amer and she was given the title "Mariam-uz-Zaman" or Mary of her age by Akbar. So a Jodha Bai would typically be from Jodhpur, but Akbar's Rajput wife, as shown in the movies Mughal-e-Azam and Jodha Akbar, was from Amer (later, a part of the kingdom of Jaipur) and thus could not be called that. The harem was like a well-run, well-organised department of the Mughal administration and Akbar had made the rule that all the wives and concubines would be named after the city of their birth to avoid confusion of similar names. We have no historical reference to judge the two portrayals since in reality Akbar had no wife called Jodha Bai. Depending on your age, you would associate Jodha Bai with Durga Khote or Aishwarya Rai.ĭurga Khote made a royal but very motherly Jodha Bai with her dimpled cheeks and cuddly appearance in K Asif's Mughal-e-Azam while Aishwarya Rai in Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodha Akbar, with her designer jewellery and ethereal looks was, of course, the quintessential queen.
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