ইতিহাস নিয়ে খুব  ভাল আলোচনা হচ্ছে। কিন্তু আজ আমি খুব ব্যস্ত।

রাজপুতানা, মরাঠা ও মুঘল ইতিহাস নিয়ে colloborative কাজ করেছেন যদুনাথ সরকার, গোবিন্দ সখারাম সরদেশাই এবং রঘুবীর সিং। এই ত্রৈয়ীর ইতিহাসচর্চা নিয়ে এবারের বইমেলায় একটি বই দেখলাম। 

আমার কালেকশনে একটি বই আছে নাম 'The Magnificent Mughals'। দিল্লীর ব্রিটিশ কাউন্সিলে ওল্ড বুক সেল থেকে কিনেছিলাম মাত্র ১০০ টাকায়। বইটি একটি সংকলন। মেডিভেল হিস্টোরিয়ানদের বিভিন্ন পিরিয়েডের ওপর প্রবন্ধ।

সেখানে যোধাবাঈ ওরফে মারিয়াম জুমানি সম্পর্কে লেখা

'Daughter of a Hindu prince, wife of Akbar and mother of Jehangir. she and Akbar were unable to produce an heir for some time. Journeying to the tomb of Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti, and his Hindu wife were on the look out for the dwelling of a develish named Shaikh Salim who lived on a hill near Sikri, one of the villages around Agra. Finding him, they were told that Akbar would have three sons, at which Akbar vowed to dedicate the first to the holy man. At the birth of his first son, Akbar called him Salim and proceeded to build a grand and neautiful city, Fatehpur Sikri, in the vicinity of the dervish's home. Maryam Zamani, as she would later be called, was a loyal, devoted abd beloved wife and mother, but she was most noted for her involvement in international trade, an effort encouraged by Jahangir for women of his harem. Maryam Zamani's most famous ship, the Rahimi ran in international waters carrying a variety of goods primarily cottons and indigo and repeatedly had trouble with other powers on the open sea, notably the Portuguese. The importance of her ventures, however, is not the details of the ship's history but that Maryam Zamani was one of the earliest and most enterprising women to move into overseas trade. Her death in 1623 was noted in due course by Jahangir, but it did not receive the full lavish details given to other 'mothers' as her son was himself too far gone into opium and drink to give them. ' -  'The lives and contributions of Mughal women' - Ellison B. Findly

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