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Dear Shyamala,
Thanks for the wise write up.
Jalal silenced everyone including Ruqaiya and his Badi Ammi about the forcible conversion of Jodha from Hindu to Musulman. But never ever he told them that he doesn't want her to be a Muslim. So when Ruquaya told him about their purpose of being in Jodha's room was to put some inteligence into her thick skull and make her mind ready for conversion before the the Maulvis pounce on his throne, was stopped by Jalal, for teh same reason that he had promised her that no one will force her to chsnge her religion against her wishes and he will stand by his words and reprimands Ruqaiya that his (Mughal Sultanate's) words are more important than the Mughal throne. If you could make out, he was pinning on Jodha's acceptance instead she chose to talk to HB and HB burst the hopes of the Mughals by supporting Jodha & Jalal's stand.
Yet again he made it clear to the clergy's that since he has given his word to Jodha begum even before his marriage to her that she can sustain her religion. So he will not force her to change it now just because his throne is shaking instead he offers that he would nominate Raheem for the throne after him (Sorry for changing from Jodha , Jalal, I could not see any shock waves on Either Adham Khan or Shareefuddin's face as expected. When they were aiming for dethroning Jalal, they were visualizing themselves on the throne, so how come they were so normal or casual to Jalal's declaration). He clearly said that conversion can happen only if she (Jodha) wishes to convert... He was clearly anticipating Jodha to volunteer to accept the conversion as it would hve showed her understanding / love/ like / care for him or at the least gratitude for what all he has done for her and her family. Only if she had trusted him and given the choice to him, he would have rejoiced and would have made hell & heaven meet to retain her religion as well as his throne. When Jodha passed on the ball to HB's court, he was disappointed and when HB declared that she wishes that her Bahu to change her religion, he was devasted. Later whatever happened was not to his liking, it was like even his Ammijan has played behing his back and didn't trust him. Though she whatever she did was for his benefit, at that moment he was hurt that being a Shehansha, if he could not realise his mom had sent a Paigam to Ajmeir and is expecting the answer, neither he nor his intelligence league were not even aware of it has shocked him to the core. (1st fall out from a lady)
After that when he went to Jodha, he was expecting her to harp on him but not before he voices out his justification. We really don't know what he wanted to tell for the 6th month born Jodha started her monologue by tellig him taht she will not say thank you for fulfilling one vachan while you have deprived me of a more important Vachan the previous night. GOd, I was about to pull my hair, luckily I was all alone watching teh show, so no one to comment on my facial expressions. (Here I can advocate Pratap for his better judgement than Jodha ). So he took the pain to explain her that as a husband he had wrapped her with Black cloth to give additional heat than eveloping her body with his arms. Thogh he joked about her imagination, he still would have enjoyed it and would have visualized it but he left disappointed with her outburst. Atleast Jodha could have thanked him after his revealation of EPIC BLACK CLOTH story. (2nd fall out)
Then comes his favourite Begum, who lashed her tongue too fast. She could have waited ofr him to confine in her about the whole Amer Trip and its fruits. She could have waited for him to turn into her Room and cajoled him for the details no, she was a bit insecure with all the intelligence report and the happenings on reaching Agra. So she pumped him all the news (which he would have told her and asked for her opinion about the culprit) about The Drugged Elephant, Snow storm and Jodha and Jalal went lost in that storm (means her intellgence could not tell her Joda left first and later Jalal followed her). This only irked him more and all teh frustration of teh day was vented out on her by a simple phrase of words that "it is true that I and Jodha shaed teh ame room" which burnt the fuse of her confidence. Had she waited for some time and analysed his words, she would have realized nothing transformed in his & Jodha's relation but it stopped only at sharing the room but she was in a hurrey to show off her source of newws by telling him, that being his wife, she has to keep tab of him to safeguard his interest. God, this is the 3rd blow to his EGO "I am Shehansha".
So all in all, all his frustration from the happenings from raged elephant to the Conversion, was taken a toll on his patience and he ventyed that to Ruqaiya by saying, yes, your intelloigence did a fab job and I shared the room with Jodha.
Coming back to his subjects, I don't think he was ready to abandon his subjects, he was anticipating Jodha's consent for conversion. Also he had a Wazeer (MA) who could advocate his case and win it for him and worst come worst, he would have throned Raheem as the emperor and would have retained the reigns of the administration in his hands. If he was ready to abandon his people, he would have said as you wish, and pepe around him would have grabbed the opportunity to their hand and taken the throne (Shareef & Adham) but he chose Raheem, so whether it is he as a godfather or the entire ministers had to safeguard the king as well as the kingdom, if the clergy's had asked him to step down.
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