Rajput Mughal marriage alliances
After the mid-16th century, many Rajput rulers formed close ties with the Mughal emperors and served them in various capacities.[1][2] It was because of the support of the Rajputs that Akbar was able to lay the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India.[3] The vassals had their daughters and sisters married to the Mughal emperors and their princes.[4][5][6] The successors of the Mughal emperor Akbar, the mothers of his son Jahangir and grandson Shah Jahan were Rajputs.[7] The Sisodia Rajput family of Mewar made it an honor not to enter into matrimonial relations with the Mughals, and thus stood in contrast to all other Rajput clans.[8] After this time, the marital relations between the Rajputs and the Mughals declined somewhat.[9] Akbar's relations with the Rajputs began when he returned in 1561 from a visit by the Chisti Sufi Shaikh of Sikri, west of Agra. Then many Rajput princesses married Mughal emperor Akbar.[10]
List of Rajput-Mughal matrimonial relations
- In February 1562, Akbar married Mariam-uz-Zamani, daughter of Raja Bharmal (Kachwaha-Amber).[11]
- In 1562, Akbar married the granddaughter of Rao Viramde. (Rathore-Merta)[12]
- On 15 November 1570, Rai Kalyan Singh married his one daughter and niece, Raj Kunwari (Raj Kanwar)[13] to Akbar (Rathore-Bikaner) [14][15]
- In 1570, Akbar married Bhanumati, another niece of Rai Kalyan Singh (Rathore-Bikaner) [14]
- In the same year Har Raj of (Bhati-Jaisalmer State) also accept the lordship of Akbar and offered a daughter, Rajkumari Nathi Bai, as a wife for the Padshah (Shah Jahan), in return Kuar Sultan Singh son of Har Raj, was accepted as a nobleman at the Mughal court.[13]
- In 1570, Puram Bai, a great-granddaughter of Rao Viramde was married to Akbar. (Rathore-Merta)[16][17]
- In 1570, Maharawal Harraj Singh married his daughter Princess Nathi Bai to Akbar (Bhati-Jaisalmer).[18][19][20][21]
- In 1573, the marriage of Akbar to the daughter of Raja Jaichand of Nagarkot (Nagarkot)[22][23]
- On March 1577, the marriage of Akbar to the daughter of the Rawal Askaran took place(Gehlot-Dungarpur)[24][25]
- In 1581, Keshavdas married his daughter to Akbar (Rathore-Morta)[26]
- Akbar also married Rukmavati, daughter of Rao Maldeo. (Rathore-Marwar)[27]
- On 16 February 1585, Prince Salim (Jahangir) was married to Princess Man Bai, the daughter of Bhagwant Das (Kachwaha-Amber)[28][29]
- On 11 January 1586, the marriage of Prince Salim (Jahangir) to Princess Manavati Bai, the daughter of Mota Raja Udai Singh took place (Rathore-Marwar)[30]
- On 26 June 1586, Prince Salim was married to daughter of Raja Rai Singh. (Rathore-Bikaner)[31]
- In 1587, Prince Salim married, Malika Jahan, daughter of Maharawal Bhim Singh. (Bhati-Jaisalmer)[32]
- Prince Salim married Karamsi, daughter of Kesho Das. (Rathore-Bikaner)[33]
- On 12 October 1595, the marriage of Daniyal to Raimal's daughter took place. (Rathore-Marwar)[34]
- On 17 June 1608, Jahangir married the daughter of Jagat Singh. (Kachwaha-Amber)[35]
- On January 1610, Jahangir married the daughter of Ram Chandra Bundela (Bundela-Orchha)[36]
- On April 1624, the marriage of Prince Parvez to Princess Manbhavati Bai, the sister of Maharaja Gaj Singh (Rathore-Marwar)[37][38][39]
- Prince Khurram (Shah Jahan) married Lilavati Bai, daughter of Sakat Singh (Rathore-Marwar)[40]
- In 1654, the marriage of the daughter of Rao Amar Singh to Prince Suleiman Shikoh (Rathore-Marwar)[41][42][43]
- Sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was married to daughter of Raja Tajuddin KhanNawab Bai, she was the mother of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah I (Jarral Rajput-Rajouri state).[44]
- Sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was also married to a Rajput princess named Udaipuri.[45]
- In 1671, marriage Mohammaduazzam (Bahadur Shah I) to Princess Amrita Bai, the daughter of Maharaja Roop Singh Rathore of Kishangarh took place (Rathore-Kishangarh)[46]
- On 5 July 1678, Azim-ush-Shan was married to Bai Jas Kaur, Kirat Singh's daughter, the son of Raja Jai Singh (Kachwaha-Amber)[47][48]
- 30 July 1681, Aurangzeb's son Kaam Baksh was married to Amarchand's daughter Kalyan Kumari of (Shekhawat-Manoharpur).[49]
- Ninth Mughal emperor Jahandar Shah was married to a Rajput Princess, Anup Bai.[50]
- On 27 September 1715, Farrukhsiyar married the daughter of Maharaja Ajit Singh, Princess Indira Kanwar (Rathore-Marwar)[51]
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