Jodha Akbar --- Flawed version ?

Historians are furious on the flawed version of history incorporated in Jodha Akbar movie. The movie directed by Ashutosh is all set to be released on 15th feb. Historians contend that Jodha was grand daughter of Akbar in contrast to wrongful depiction as wife in the movie.

The centuries old historical site where Akbar married his first Rajput princess from the Amber principality back in 1562 is still standing at Sambhar near Jaipur. A painfully carved stone inscription clearly endorses the matrimonial union of Jalaludin Mohammed Akbar with Harka Bhai, the daughter of Raja Bharmal, from the Kachchawa Rajput clan of Amber (erstwhile Jaipur) . Jodha Bhai on the other hand was born later in 1572 as the daughter of Mota Raja Udai Singh of Marwar (Jodhpur).

Almost all historical accounts right from Colonel James Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan to the recent compilation of Rajasthan's history by Rima Hooja puts it down clearly that Akbar's foremost and favourite Rajput bride was Harka Bhai or Harika Bhai of Amber whom he married according to Hindu rituals at Sambhar. The same texts go on to say that their son Jehangir married Jodha Bhai (meaning the lady of Jodhpur, according to Col. Tod's version, also referred to as Mani Bhai and Jagat Gosai in Jehangir Nama) who was the daughter of Mota Raja Udai Singh of Marwar (Jodhpur) much later in 1586. Harkha Bhai was given the title of Mariam-uz-Zamani (Mary of the World) after she gave birth to Jehangir.