Bhagwant Das
{{Short description|Raja of Amber (1527–1589)}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| title = Raja of Amber
Governor of Lahore
Amir-ul-Umra
| image = Portrait of Raja Bhagvant Das (cropped).jpg
| caption = Portrait of Raja Bhagvant Das {{circa|1610–1620}}, Royal Collection
| succession = 24th Raja of Amber
| reign = 25 January 1574 – 4 December 1589{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Jadunath|author-link=Jadunath Sarkar|editor=Raghubir Sinh
|title=A History of Jaipur: C. 1503–1938|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oPIo9TXKcC&pg=PA74|orig-year=1984|year=1994|publisher=Orient Longman|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-250-0333-5}}
| coronation = 25 January 1574
| predecessor = Bharmal
| successor = Man Singh I
| royal house = Kachhwaha
| father = Bharmal
| mother = Phulvati Bai of Mandore{{cite book|last=Bhatnagar|first=V. S.|title=Life and Times of Sawai Jai Singh, 1688-1743|year=1974|page=10|location=Delhi|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.119126/page/n19/mode/2up}}
| spouse = {{Plainlist|*Bhagwati Devi Panwar
- Durgavati Bai Rathore}}
| birth_date = {{circa|1527}}
| birth_place = Amber, Amber Kingdom
(modern-day Rajasthan, India)
| death_date = 4 December {{death year and age|1589|1527}}
| death_place = Lahore, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire
(modern day Punjab, Pakistan)
| issue = {{Plainlist|*Raja Man Singh (1550–1614)
- Man Bai (1570–1604)
- Raja Madho Singh
- Pratap Singh }}
| issue-link = #Issue
| issue-pipe = more...
| religion = Hinduism
| succession1 = Subahdar of Lahore
| reign-type1 = Term
| cor-type1 = Emperor
| coronation1 = Akbar I
| predecessor1 = Said Khan
| successor1 = Rai Singh
| succession2 = Subahdar of Kabul
| reign-type2 = Term
| reign2 = 1586 (few months)
| cor-type2 = Emperor
| coronation2 = Akbar I
| predecessor2 = Man Singh I
| successor2 = Isma'il Quit Khan
}}
Raja Bhagwant Das ({{circa|1527}} – 4 December 1589) was the 23rd Kacchwaha ruler of Amber. He also served as the Subahdar of Lahore and the Subahdar of Kabul for a few months in 1586.{{Citation |title=Peshawar, Pakistan, 1980 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1p6jhvp.50 |work=Crossing the River Kabul |pages=153–155 |access-date=2023-12-24 |publisher=Potomac Books|doi=10.2307/j.ctt1p6jhvp.50 }}{{cite journal |last1=Husain |first1=Afzal |date=1970 |title=Provincial Governors Under Akbar (1580-1605) |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=32 |pages=269–277 |jstor=44141074}} His sister, Mariam-uz-Zamani, was the chief consort of Mughal emperor Akbar. His son, Man Singh I, one of the Navaratnas of Akbar, became the highest-ranking official of his court. His daughter, Man Bai, was the first and chief wife of Prince Salim (later Jahangir).
Life
File:Jaipur 03-2016 04 Amber Fort.jpg, in Amber, the capital of Raja Bhagwant Das.]]
Raja Bhagwant Das was the eldest son of Bharmal born in 1527 to his wife Phulvati of Mandore.{{cite book|last=Hooja|first=Rima|title=A History of Rajasthan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tosMAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Rupa & Company|isbn=978-81-291-0890-6|page=484}}
At the event of his sister's marriage to Akbar in 1562, he was taken into the royal service by Akbar. He led several military expeditions of the Mughal Empire and was a respected noble in the Mughal court. He was notable for his sincere devotion and loyalty to Akbar having saved his life in the battle of Paronkh taking the bow meant to strike Akbar, on his chest.
Bhagwant Das was one of the generals of Akbar, who awarded him a mansab (rank) of 5000 in 1585.{{cite book|title=The Akbarnama of Abu'l-Fazl|volume=III|author=Abu'l-Fazl|author-link=Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak|translator=Henry Beveridge|translator-link=Henry Beveridge (orientalist)|year=1973|orig-year=1907|publisher=Rare Books|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281990/mode/2up|location=Delhi}} and conferred him the title of Amir-ul-Umra ({{lit|chief noble}}).{{cite book |last=Prasad |first=Rajiva Nain |title=Raja Man Singh of Amber |year=1966 |page=77 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35121/page/n93/mode/2up }} He fought many battles for Akbar, including battles in Punjab, Kashmir, and Afghanistan, and was also the governor of Kabul. Bhagwant Das was soundly defeated by the Kashmiri king, Yousuf Shah Chak.{{harvtxt|Sarkar|1994|p=64}}
He married his daughter, Man Bai, to Prince Salim, who later assumed the throne as emperor Jahangir.{{cite book |last=Khan |first=Refaqat Ali |title=The Kachhwahas under Akbar and Jahangir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2U9uAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Kitab Publishers |year=1976 |page=45 }}{{cite book|last=Fisher|first=Michael|title=A Short History of the Mughal Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ffmRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87|year=2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|location=London and New York|isbn=978-1-350-12753-1|page=87}} Their child was Jahangir's eldest son, Khusrau Mirza.{{cite book|last=Singh|first=Nagendra Kr|title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: I-M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVtuAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7648-233-2|page=335}}
Death
Shortly after attending the cremation of Todar Mal at Lahore, Bhagwant Das, having suffered from a bout of vomiting and strangury, died on 4 December 1589.{{harvtxt|Prasad|1966|pages=77–78}} At the time of his death, Akbar issued a firman of condolence to his eldest son and successor, Man Singh I. The firman contained kind and gracious messages, and Akbar also sent him his own robes of honor and a bodyguard’s horse.{{cite book|last1=Badayuni|first1=Abdul Qadir|title=Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh|volume=II|date=1590|page=384}} Additionally, Akbar bestowed upon him the title of Raja in honor of his father’s passing.{{cite book|last=Dundlod|first=Harnath Singh|title=Jaipur and Its Environs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-IBAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Raj. Educational Printers|page=7}}{{harvtxt|Bhatnagar|1974|pages=9–10}} His second son, Madho Singh, became the ruler of Bhangarh.{{harvtxt|Hooja|2006|page=506}}
Issue
Raja Bhagwant Das had at least thirteen sons:{{cite journal|title=Rajasthan Purathan Granthmala: Raja Bhagwat Raja Bharmalputra thirteen sons|first=Puratanvacharya|last= Jinvijya Muni|volume=I|page=271|url=https://archive.org/download/cam-scanner-07-10-2022-17.49.23}}
- Raja Man Singh
- Man Bai
- Raja Madho Singh
- Pratap Singh
- Kunwar Hardas Singh
- Kunwar Kanah
- Kunwar Vanmali Das
- Kunwar Bhiv
- Chandarsera Singh
- Sur Singh
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. Bhagwant Das
|2= 2. Bihari Mal, Raja of Amber{{cite book |last=Eaton |first=Richard |title=India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 |year=2019 |page=130 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=9780141966557 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aIF6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR130 }}
|4= 4. Prithviraj Singh I, Raja of Amber{{harvtxt|Sarkar|1994|p=33|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oPIo9TXKcC&pg=PA33]}}
|6= 6. Akhairaj, Rao of Bagri
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|8= 8. Chandrasen, Raja of Amber{{harvtxt|Sarkar|1994|p=32|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oPIo9TXKcC&pg=PA32]}}
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|10= 10. Lunkaran, Rao of Bikaner{{cite book |last=Singh |first=Rajvi Amar |title=Mediaeval History of Rajasthan: Western Rajasthan |year=1992 |page=1518 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZIMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22+He+had+one+daughter+Bala+Bai+%22 }}
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|12= 12. Ranmal, Rao of Marwar
|13= Rami Bai of Nadol{{cite book |last1=Saran |first1=Richard |last2=Ziegler |first2=Norman P. |title=The Meṛtīyo Rāṭhoṛs of Meṛto, Rājasthān: Biographical notes with introduction, glossary of kinship terms and indexes |publisher=University of Michigan, Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies |year=2001 |page=162 |isbn=9780891480853 |url=https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/41862/9780472901739.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}{{harvtxt|Singh|1992|p=145}}
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