Phool Bai Rathore
{{Short description|Fifth wife of Maharana Pratap}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Phool Bai Rathore
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| birth_place = Jodhpur, Marwar
| spouse = Maharana Pratap{{cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/maharana-pratap-jayanti-know-the-real-life-story-of-the-brave-rajput-warrior-2174403.html|title=Maharana Pratap Jayanti: Know the real-life story of the brave Rajput warrior|website=News18|date=6 June 2019 |access-date=25 April 2021}}
| issue = Chanda Singh
Shekha Singh
| religion = Hinduism
| full name = Rani Phool Kanwar Rathore
| father = Ramchandra Rathore
| dynasty = Rathore (by birth)
Sisodia (by marriage)
}}
Phool Bai Rathore ({{lit|Flower}}), also known as Rani Phool Bai, was the fifth wife of Maharana Pratap, the 13th Rana of the Kingdom of Mewar. Phool Bai was the mother of Chanda Singh and Shekha Singh.{{cite book |last=Agarwal |first=B.D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQsvjwEACAAJ |title=Rajasthan District Gazetteers: Jodhpur |publisher=Directorate of District Gazetteers, Government of Rajasthan |year=1979 |series=Gazetteer of India |pages=31 |access-date=2022-04-26}}
Early life
Phool Bai was born into the Rathore family of Marwar. She was the granddaughter of Marwar's ruler Maldeo Rathore and the daughter of Ramchandra Rathore.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tosMAQAAMAAJ&q=Maldeo+forty+parganas History of Rajasthan by Rima Hooja Section: The State of Marwar/Jodhpur], pp. 520–522. {{ISBN|9788129108906}}.{{Cite web|title=Ajabde Punwar to Phool Bai Rathore: Known all about the powerful queens of Maharana Pratap|url=https://www.herzindagi.com/hindi/society-culture/know-about-most-powerful-maharana-pratap-wives-article-197825|access-date=12 December 2023|work=Her Zindagi}}
Marriage and children
Phool Bai was married to Maharana Pratap, as a result of a political alliance between Marwar and Mewar, and became his fifth wife.{{Cite book|last=Sharma|first=Sri Ram|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3twgPwAACAAJ|title=Maharana Pratap: A Biography|date=2002|publisher=Hope India Publ.|isbn=978-81-7871-005-1|language=en}} She gave birth to his two sons, Chanda Singh and Shekha Singh. Chanda was given the jagir of Anjana, Shekha was given the jagir of Bera and Nana.{{cite book|author=Ram Vallabh Somani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcIBAAAAMAAJ|title=History of Mewar, from Earliest Times to 1751 A.D.|publisher=Mateshwari|year=1976|oclc=2929852}}
In popular culture
- In the 2015 series, Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap, Phool Bai was portrayed by Jannat Zubair Rahmani and Heena Parmar.{{Cite web |title=‘Bharat Ka Veer Putra - Maharana Pratap’ - Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/bharat-ka-veer-putra-maharana-pratap/articleshow/19344341.cms |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.mewarindia.com Official Website for the Royal Family of Udaipur]