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Amber — the Kachhwaha house
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- DynastyAmber — the Kachhwaha House — seat of the Rajawat Kachhwahas; in Mughal service from the 1560s
- PersonRaja Bihari Mal of Amber — chief of Amber; died at Agra
- PersonRaja Man Singh I of Amber — grandson of Bihari Mal; commander under Akbar and Jahangir
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Wikipedia's claim of an exact marriage date, 6 February 1562, was seen in a summarised fetch but its underlying citation was not identified or opened; it should be chased and either verified against a primary or dropped.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed
The Ain-i-Akbari's own biographical entry for Bihari Mal (Ain I, pp. 328–330) was read only through p. 329; p. 330, and the fuller run of pp. 331–340, were not opened, so anything the Ain records about Bihari Mal between his promotion and his death is not reflected here.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed
Beveridge's Akbarnama II was opened only at p. 243, calibrated once. The surrounding chapters (the approach to Ajmer, the Sambhar halt, the return march) were not read as images and may carry detail — court reaction, gifts exchanged, the date given in the Ilahi calendar in full — that this essay does not have.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed
Tod's Annals, Volume I (Mewar) and the 'Annals of Amber, or Dhoondar' chapter specifically (Vol. II, beginning at printed p. 318 per that volume's own contents list) were targeted but not located as page images in the time available; only the Annals of Marwar chapter (pp. 36–37) was read. Tod's own dedicated account of Amber's founding legend — the 'romantic legend of Dhola Rae' his contents page promises — remains unread and unquoted here.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed
Encyclopaedia Britannica's 'Kachwaha' and 'Rajput' entries could not be fetched (HTTP 403 in this session) and are not represented; Wikipedia stood in as the tier-C source instead.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed
Satish Chandra's 2008 article 'Jodha Bai — Who Is She?' (Indian Historical Review 35/2) is cited above only at second hand, through a Wikipedia summary of it; the article itself was not opened and its argument is not independently verified here.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed
Muhammad Nazim-type epigraphic sources, and any Persian-language chronicle other than the Akbarnama and Ain, were not searched; the genealogical chain from Dhola Rai to Bihari Mal (18 generations, per Ain I p. 329) rests entirely on the Ain's own say-so and was not cross-checked against the Rajputana Gazetteer's separate, longer legendary chain (Kash–Nal–Dhola Rao), which differs in the intermediate names.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed
The Rajputana Gazetteer volume searched (rajputanagazett00agegoog) contains, per a full-text search not followed up with an image read, a claim dating the Kachhwaha conquest of Amber itself to A.D. 1037 — apparently in tension with the same volume's A.D. 967 founding date two pages earlier. That page was not opened as an image and the tension is noted, not resolved.
Amber and the Mughals: A Marriage the Primaries Leave Unnamed