Seeds of Secularism in India
AKBAR THE GREAT-5
एक दुखी परिवार – २5

Rajkumari Heer Kunwari (aka 'Jodha Bai')
Empress Consort of the Mughal Empire, also known as
Mariam-uz-Zamani alias Harka Bai (February 6 ,1562 – 27 October 1605)
Consort Akbar, had given birth to twins named  Hassan -Hussain , both of whom died within a month from their birth for reasons unknown, besides Jahangir and  Daniyal.
She belonged to the  Kachwahas of Amer, was daughter of  Raja Bharmal.

Her Religion remained Hinduism as she Never converted to Islam and throughout her life-time, remained a devotee of Lord Krishna, though on her death, she was buried as per muslim rites.
Known as Mariam-uz-Zamani Begum, rather than Jodha Bai as is the popular belief, she was also known as Heer Kunwari, Hira Kunwari, Harka Bai or by a recently invented or conferred name,  Jodha Bai, (October 1,1542 – May 19, 1623), she was an Empress of the Mughal Empire.
She was the first chief Rajput wife of Emperor Akbar (though Akbar already had two other Chief Mughal wives and many other wives before his marriage to Rajput Princess Heer Kunwari), who was also  the mother of the next Mughal Emperor, Jahangir.
She was also the grandmother of the following Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.

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