S.R._ vol. iv. (1874), p. 121: Muh. Latif, _Agra_, p. 192). It is
painful to be obliged to record so many instances of vandalism
committed by English officials. This tomb is the memorial of Jodh
Bai, daughter of Udai Singh, _alias_ Moth Raja, who was married to
Jahangir in A.D. 1585, and was the mother of Shah Jahan. Her personal
names were Jagat Goshaini and Balmati. She died in A.D. 1619. Akbar's
queen, Maryam-uz-Zamani, daughter of Raja Bihari Mall of Jaipur
(Amber), who died in A.D. 1623, is buried at Sikandra. (See Beale,
s.v. 'Jodh Bai' and 'Mariam Zamani'; Blochmann, transl. _Ain_, pp.
429, 619.) The tomb of Maryam-uz-Zamani has been purchased by
Government from the missionaries, who had used it as a school, and
has been restored. (_Ann. Rep. A.S., India_, 1910-11, pp. 92-6.)
5. Although it may be admitted that the Rajput strain of blood
improved the constitution of the royal family of Delhi, the decline
and fall of the Timuride dynasty cannot be truly ascribed to 'the
loss of the Rajput blood in the veins' of the ruling princes. The
empire was tottering to its fall long before the death of Aurangzeb,
who 'had himself married two Hindoo wives; and he wedded his son
Muazzam (afterwards the Emperor Bahadur) to a Hindoo princess, as his
forefathers had done before him'.
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