Bharmal

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Dhundhar region with Amber / Jaipur

Raja Bharmal (* around 1495 ; † January 27, 1574 in Amber ) was ruler of the principality of Amber in the years 1548–1574 . He is best known as the father of Mariam uz-Zamani , the favorite wife of the Grand Mogul Akbar I (r. 1556–1605).

biography

Bharmal was the fourth eldest son of the Rajput ruler Raja Prithviraj (or Prithvi Singh I) of the Kachwaha tribe ; his mother Rani Apoorva Devi (or Bala Bai) was the daughter of a prince from Bikaner and came from the Rathore Rajputs. His older brothers Puranmal (ruled 1527–1534), Bhim Singh (ruled 1534–1537) and his nephew Ratan Singh (ruled 1537–1548) followed their father and uncle, who died in 1527. Ratan Singh was murdered by his stepbrother Askaran; then the nobles of the empire chose Bharmal.

His older brother Puranmal had already performed military and administrative services for the Mughal rulers who had resided in Delhi since 1526 . Bharmal continued the alliance policy of his older brothers and the Dhundhar region, to which Amber / Jaipur belonged, was spared wars for centuries. In 1556, Bharmal helped the Mughal commander Majnun Khan Qaqshal, which Akbar later informed him, who then invited Bharmal to Delhi. In 1561/2, however, there were conflicts between the court of Amber and the Mughal governor of Mewar Mirza Muhammad Sharaf-ud-din Hussain. The courtier Chaghtai Khan reported it to Akbar and the two met in January 1562 in Akbar's camp; On this occasion, Bharmal Akbar proposed marriage to his then 19-year-old daughter Heer Kunwari or Harkha Bai , which Akbar accepted. The marriage was concluded a month later; Harkha Bai took the name Mariam uz-Zamani at the Mughal court and gave birth to several sons, including the heir to the throne Jahangir - it was the first marriage of a Hindu princess to a Mughal emperor.

No further news is known from Bharmal in the following period. After his death in 1574 he was succeeded by his eldest son Bhagwant Das .

See also

Later rulers of Amber / Jaipur were u. a .:

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SURNAME Bharmal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Raja from Amber
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH Amber
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1574
Place of death Amber