She rests alone, almost forgotten.
At the tomb of Maryam-uz-Zamani, Akbar's favorite wife.
She was born in 1542 CE, destined to be a Mughal queen.
She was born in 1542 CE, and no one seems to agree on her original name: some insist her parents named her Harkha, and James Tod misnamed her Jodha. Modern filmmakers and television series producers also call her Jodha, resulting in a mushy, gooey TV series called "Jodha Akbar," a series my mother a…
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