The Jodhpur princess was given the posthumous title of ’Mariam-uz-Zamani’, or ‘Mary of the age’, which circumstance probably originated the belief that Akbar had one Christian queen.  Her tomb at Sikandara is locally known simply as Rauza Maryam, ‘the mausoleum of Mary’, a designation which has had much to do with the persistence of the erroneous belief in the existence of a Christian consort of Akbar.  Mr. Beveridge holds, and I think rightly, that Jodh Bai is not a proper name.  It seems to mean merely ‘princess of Jodhpur’.  The only lady really known as Jodh Bai was the daughter of Udai Singh (Moth Raja) of Jaipur, who became a consort of Jahangir.  Sleeman’s notion that Jahangir’s mother also was called Jodh Bai is mistaken (Blochmann, ut supra).

4.  It was blown up about 1832 by order of the Government, and the materials of the gates, walls, and outer towns were used for the building of barracks.  But the mausoleum itself resisted the spoiler and remained ‘a huge shapeless heap of massive fragments of masonry’.  The building consisted of a square room raised on a platform with a vault below.  The marble tomb or cenotaph of the queen still exists in the vault.  A fine gateway formerly stood at the entrance to the enclosure, and there was a small mosque to the west of the tomb (A.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’. (Lane-Poole, The History of the Moghul Emperors of Hindustan illustrated by their Coins, p. xviii. ) The wonder is, not that the empire of Delhi fell, but that it lasted so long.

6.  When the author wrote the above remarks, Englishmen knew the gallant Gurkhas as enemies only; they now know them as worthy and equal brethren in arms.  The recruitment of Gurkhas for the British service began in 1838.  The spelling ‘Gorkha’ is more accurate.