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Today Jodha said once the baby is born she will give him to Jalal and leave to amer.
Now all of us are aware that Salim and his mother Mariam-uz-zamani had not so close a relation. If they were really close then when Salim rebelled against Akbar she would have mediated peace between them. Akbar tried his best to make Salim stop his rebellion and come back to him when he set up a parallel government in Allahabad by not taking strict action on him(like announcing him traitor or sending forces to catch him etc) and writing him letters and sending envoys to convince him to come back to agra to his family and forget his rebellion. Finally Salima and Ruqaiah brokered peace between father and son by going to Allahabad and getting him back to agra. And Hamida took him to Akbar and both resolved their differences.
So where was his mother Hira Bai all the time no where in the act. Nowhere. As a mother and wife she should have been the first person to broker peace between father-son. But she did not why? Did she not care for the empire or for Akbar and Jehangir's relationship or did she have no real bonding with Salim and Akbar that she would move mountains to resolve their mended father-son relationship. We also know Salim was close to Ruqaiah and Salima than his own mother as mentioned in jehangirnama.
Now connect that with how Jodha told in yesterday's serial that once baby is born she will hand over him to Akbar and leave. I know of a friend's mother who was forced to marry to a man and she hates her own children from him although after a few years she accepted her fate and openly told them too about it a few times in anger. Did the same happen to Hira Kunwari she was forced to marry Akbar against her wish, convert to islam and also bear his child. That was 16th century do you really akbar would have said "I will touch you when you say yes?" like in serial surely not. So did all this factors make Hira Kunwari(jodha) dislike salim and remove anger of being forced to marry akbar on the child. See Akbar is very powerful and no nonsense guy he is not like the Akbar of this serial who will take ghrina and nonsense talks from his wives, sister, mother etc. So obivously Hira(like jodha does in serial) cannot shout, ignore, misbehave with the real Akbar. So whom does she remove her anger on i can find only Salim who would have borne the brunt of her anger on being married agianst her wishes by her family to Akbar. Anger need not be shown only by physical punishment or shouting it can be shown by ignoring a child by making it feel unwanted etc.
Now neither Akbarnama nor Jehangirnama mention about Akbar and Mariam-uz-zamani aka Hira Kunwari in detail(Jehangirnama does mention Salima and Ruqaiah a bit more). Is that not surprising? Look at Humayun nama and Babur nama how they record many incidents of wives, sisters, mothers including details of marriages and issues faced by them etc. How detaily baburnama mentions his sister khanzada being given away as hostage to the uzbeg lord to save his life, his childhood with his elder sister, his first marriage breaking off, how he married late etc
Why is both Akbarnama and Jehangirnama silent on sisters, mothers and wives? Akbarnama is so silent on wives and sisters that its surprising. Atleast Jehangirnama takes some efforts to explain characters of his sisters and brothers and mention something about his 3 mothers Ruqaiah, Salima and Hira Kunwari. But yet it is vague references we do not get to know what sort of relationship really exists between mothers-son etc only incidents. Jehangir who loved some of his wives like Jodha, Sahib Jamal and Nur Jahan again is silent on their roles also except passing references.
One more point while thinking of it please remember this was 15th century not 21st century. Here women were treated like 3rd class citizens brought., sold and bargained liked cattle etc. They did not have freedom, will and wish or self respect. They were expected to be under father, brother, husband and finally son. If it was 21st century do you think to save his kingdom and sons a father Bharamal will give his daughter jodha's hand in marriage to a muslim barbarian ruler Jalal. Do not forget what Bhagwan das and Man Singh were talking shahenshah itne bhi rudayeen aur jallad nahi hai jaise log bolthe hain. So if they think like this before marriage about jalal which father/brother will push his daughter in marriage. Jodha was basically bargained like a cattle/animal to secure Bharamal's kingdom and freedom. It was Akbar the great's greatness that he treated her nicely and allowed her to retain her customs, worship etc. Even there he was forced to make her convert to islam to marry her on pressure from society.
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