Rashmi,
At present i am not completely aware of the circumstances which led to Khurram's handing over to Ruqs. :)
But, this was a very normal custom. Ruqayya Begum was childless throughout her life. And she was given a kid in her old age when she was in her 50's. I simply do not understand what stopped Akbar from giving any other of his kids to Ruqayya Begum before this.?.
He was giving kids to Salima and his mother. But why not Ruqs.?.
Anyways, this was a normal custom in Mughal household to give kids to childless begums. Ruqayya Begum is not a special case. This is not a big deal, though it may look cruel in present times.
I am searching this also. Pata nahi kahan kuch mil jaye. 😉
Coming to Man Bai and Jagat Gosain. Man Bai was very much dear to Salim till her death. She was pampered a lot by this chap. And Khusrau was a very much fine prince, not a mental patient. He was groomed to be made the next ruler by Akbar as per what i have read.
In Siyaasat, we do not have Hamida and Salima Begum and MUZ, who were the REAL powers and handled Akbar's harem. But only we have Ruqayya Begum. 😉 And it seems Salim is the hero and Abul Fazl is going to be a negative role. 😕
Jagat Gosain and her rivalry with Nur Jahan is very famous. 🤣
She was too much of uncontrollable "mirchi" for Nur Jahan. 😆
I was reading on these ladies only few days back. Will post about Jagat and Nur soon. :)
There are so many topics to be posted, hence i am finding it difficult now.
Do read blog discussions if you like. You will get lot of hardcore history stuff there. I am
mostly active there, will visit here also. 😊
We were discussing why Salim was not present in Agra on death of MUZ. We discussed this in details on the blog
few days back. If you missed i am posting the same thing here also.
Salim was near Ajmer when MUZ died in Agra and possibly the news of her death was
given late to Salim. We discussed this few days back in details. :)
PS : That post where we were discussing this was generating unusually high traffic. ;p
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