Princess Hira Kunwari – Mariam uz Zamani Jodha Bhai

Mariam uz-Zamani Begum Sahiba, née Rajkumari Hira Kunwari, alias Harkha Bai (October 1, 1542 – 1622) was a Rajput princess who became the Mughal Empress, after her marriage to Mughal Emperor Akbar. She was the eldest daughter of Kachwaha Rajput, Raja Bharmal of Amber, the older name of the Rajput State of Jaipur.

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The story of Maria Mascarenhas starts when she along with her younger sister Juliana Mascarenhas embark on a journey from Lisbon to Goa in September 1558. In that era it was the responsibility of the king of Portugal to take care of the orphans of noblemen killed in the service of the monarch, and girls of marriageable age were sent to the overseas provinces or new conquest territories. On the way, their ship was captured by pirates, who took the ladies to the court of Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. Bahadur Shah in turn presented them to the Mughal court. "The moment Akbar cast his eyes on 17-year-old Maria, he fell in love with her and could not resist the desire to make her his wife," When the Portuguese initiated trade practices in India, large part of northern India was under the rule of the Mughals. The Portuguese conquered Goa under Alfonso de Albuquerque in 1510. The English would never wanted to acknowledge a union between the Mughal ruler and the Portuguese, as the Portuguese were their trading rivals. Dona Maria Mascarenhas was the mother of Jahangir known as Maryam Zamani. The Mughals could not accept that a Christian, who fought the Mughals, had wed the Emperor. This is the reason why she has not been mentioned anywhere in Mughal records as Jahangir's mother. If Jahangir had been born to a daughter of a great Rajput kingdom, surely he would want to boast the fact considering that the Mughals were eager to forge a strategic alliance with the Rajputs. Jahangir's patronization of Christianity and Jesuit missionaries can be taken as evidence to his lineage coming from a Portuguese woman rather than a Rajput princess. As for Juliana, she was in charge of the Seraglio as harem physician. She was married off by Akbar to the fugitive French prince, Jean Philip Bourbon and both died in Agra.