Person · r. c. 1625 – 1667
Jai Singh I (Mirza Raja)
جے سنگھ
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Raised to the throne of Amber c. 1625 by the emperor Jahangir at Jodha Bai's instigation, restoring the Kachhwaha house's standing after Bhao Singh and Maha Singh; murdered by poison mixed into his opium by his own son Kirat Singh at Aurangzeb's instigation in 1667, and succeeded by his elder son Ram Singh.
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- vol. III (Crooke ed., 1920), p. 1339 · read as page image
Jai Singh, grandson of Jagat Singh (brother of Man), was raised to the throne of Amber, to the no small jealousy, says [355] the chronicle, of the favourite queen, Nur Jahan.
- vol. III (Crooke ed., 1920), p. 1340 · read as page image
Jai Singh, Mirza Rājā, c. a.d. 1625-67.—Jai Singh, the Mirza Raja, the title by which he is best known, restored by his conduct the renown of the Kachhwaha name, which had been tarnished by the two unworthy successors of Raja Man.