Jodhabai was the daughter of Moteraja Udai Singh and she would have been three years younger than Salim and hence, in no way could she have been his mother.'

Lokendra Singh Kalvi, who heads a Rajput outfit called Sri Rajput Karni Sena, says, ' None of Akbar's 34 wives were named Jodhabai. Akbar married the former maharaja of Amer, Bharmal's elder daughter Karkbai alias Heer Kumar in Fatehpur Sikri on Feburary 6, 1562. Meanwhile, a section of the Rajput community have their own version of who Jodhabai was, and want to ban the film from releasing in Rajasthan.

When told about the incident, Dr Hussain said, 'If that is the case then the royal family should publish their history and share the information with historians.'

Interestingly, the royal family of Jodhpur openly stated that Jodhaabai did exist, and that she married Emperor Akbar.Īt the music launch of Jodhaa Akbar, Padmini Devi of the Japiur royal family acknowledged the fact that Jodhaa existed and it was this matrimonial union that brought an alliance between Mughals and Rajputs. 'Colonel Tod depended on bardic literature (folk literature) of Rajputs and he mentioned Jodhabai for the first time here.' 'The name Jodha first came up in the 19 th century when Colonel Tod, a Britisher, and not a professional historian, mentioned Jodhabai in his book Annals and Antiquity of Rajasthan,' Ahmad adds. But the name Jodha is not mentioned anywhere. It further says that Mariam Zamani is a title referred to the lady who gave birth to Prince Salim, who became Emperor Jehangir. She is referred to as Mariam Zamani (Mary of the Age). 'In the Akbarnama, there is a mention of Akbar marrying a Rajput princess of Amer but her name is not Jodhaa,' says historian and director of the Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Imtiaz Ahmad in Patna. There is no proof of her in history,' says Dr S M Azizuddin Hussain, history teacher at the Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. 'These books were written in Persian and there is no mention of Queen Jodhabai. Protests against Jodhaa Akbar in Rajasthan

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