...salima sultan was the first cousin of akbar so their is no question of mother lke figure as they grew up together...like raquia salima was also childhood frn of Jalaal
bairam khan was 38 years elder to salima and she was bethrothed to bairam as the token of appreciation from hamunyan... jalaal though attended the marriage but personally he never approved it as there was a considerable age difference.between salima and bairam ...in later year he put a ban on the unmatched marriage if the age difference exceed 12 years between the couple in the words of Abul fazl he abhor unmatched marriage for him it was worst of all marriages..probably this was the reason he married salima
some historical argues tht he married her on the instance of his mother as she was from royal lineage and generally the children belonging to royal lineage are married in royal family...😳
hoped it helped
Edited by arti07 - 12 years ago
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