Originally posted by: -RS-
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2" color="#990000">According to Hira bai history,she never owned any palace.Hira bai is considered to be jodha.Rukaiya had two palaces -one at Fatehpur Skri and other at Agra.Rukaiya power was unbeatable in the time of Akbar and Jehangir.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2" color="#990000">The name jodha bai is a misnomer.How can you tell that she had palaces??</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2" color="#990000">Her name as in Mughal chronicles was Mariam-uz-Zamani. Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, the autobiography of Jahangir, doesn't mention Jodha Bai nor Harka Bai or Heer Kunwari.Therein, she is referred to as Mariam-uz-Zamani.Neither theAkbarnama(a biography of Akbar commissioned by Akbar himself), nor any historical text from the period refer to her as Jodha Bai.According to Professor Shirin Moosvi, a historian of Aligarh Muslim University, the name "Jodha Bai" was first used to refer to Akbar's wife in the 18th and 19th centuries in historical writings.According to the historian Imtiaz Ahmad, the director of the Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library in Patna, it was Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod who first mentioned Jodhabai in his bookAnnals and Antiquities of Rajasthan.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2" color="#990000">"In the Akbarnama, there is a mention of Akbar marrying a Rajput princess of Amer but her name is not Jodhaa," says historian and director of the Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Imtiaz Ahmad in Patna. She is referred to as Mariam Zamani (Mary of the Age). This is a title and not a name. It further says that Mariam Zamani is a title referred to the lady who gave birth to Prince Salim, who became Emperor Jehangir. But the name Jodha is not mentioned anywhere.</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2" color="#990000">Professor N R Farooqi, a historian of Allahabad Central University, states that Jodha Bai was not the name of Akbar's queen instead it was the name of Jahangir's wifeTaj Bibi Bilqis Makanithe Princess of Jodhpur, whose real name was Jagat Gosain.</font>