Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c18.s1.41

v1.c18.s1.41

Amber, the nearest to Delhi and the most exposed, though more open to temptation than to conquest, in its then contracted sphere, was the first to set the example.¹ Its Raja Bhagwandas gave his daughter to Humayun;² and subsequently this practice became so common, that some of the most celebrated emperors were the offspring of Rajput princesses. Of these, Salim, called after his accession, Jahangir; his ill-fated son, Khusru; Shah Jahan ;¹ Kambakhsh,² the favourite of his father ; Aurangzeb, and his rebellious son Akbar, whom his Rajput kin would have placed on the throne had his genius equalled their power, are the most prominent instances. Farrukhsiyar, when the empire began to totter, furnished the last instance of a Mogul sovereign [153] marrying a Hindu princess,³ the daughter of Raja Ajit Singh, sovereign of Marwar.