Originally posted by: Charaiveti
what I know,and take this with a pinch of salt cz this I read from posts of a historian who visited the jodha Akbar forum often.
There is no Anarkali. Damiyal was not any courtesan's son cause it's well documented he was sent to aamer aka Jaipur royal family n the king n queen who were akbar's in laws brought him up. Mariam uz zamani aka jodha aka heer kunwari aka (her real name is not well known but she's princess of Jaipur n Salims mother) were their daughter and Akbar respected them a lot,he wouldn't send a courtesan's son there ,he was most probably a Queen's son, with a high chance he was Mariam uz zamani's son. Akbar did have lots of courtesan's for sure though.
Now there is this woman called sahib Jamal. Her tomb is the one that gets called anarkali's tomb. She was the relative of Atga Khan, akabar godfather whom akbar's dai mahamanga's son Adham killed. Jahangir aka Salim fell for sahib Jamal when they were young and it created friction between dad n son. And at last akabr did buckle n let them get married. She died early though n her tomb is very beautiful with anar tree near it I think.
Salim had many love marriages. He used to fall for women very frequently. He had more love marriages than the political alliances type ones