Jagat Gosaini

Jagat Gosaini
17th century portrait of Jagat Gosaini
Died	18 April 1619 Agra, India
Burial	Aram Bagh, Agra
Spouse	Jahangir
Issue	Begum Sultan Shah Jahan
Dynasty	Rathore
Father	Udai Singh of Marwar
Religion	Hinduism

Jagat Gosaini (d. 18 April 1619) was a wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir and the mother of his successor, the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. She is also known as Jodh Bai,Manmati, and was given the posthumous title of Bilqis Makani.

By birth, she was a Rajput princess of Marwar (present-day Jodhpur) and was a daughter of Rana Udai Singh (popularly known as Mota Raja), the Rathore ruler of Marwar.

Known most popularly as Jodh Bai, the Jodhpur princess, Jagat Gosaini belonged to the Rathore clan of Rajputs and was a daughter of Rana Udai Singh, the ruler of Marwar (present-day Jodhpur). Udai Singh was popularly known by the sobriquet Mota Raja (the fat king). Her grandfather was Maldeo Rathore, under whose rule Marwar turned into a strong Rajput Kingdom that resisted foreign rule and challenged the invaders for northern supremacy. Maldeo Rathore refused to ally with either the Sur Empire or the Mughal Empire after Humayun regained control of North India in 1555. This policy was continued by his son and successor Chandrasen Rathore.

After the death of Maldeo Rathore in 1562, a fratricidal war for succession started and Chandrasen crowned himself in the capital Jodhpur. But his reign was short lived as Emperor Akbar's army occupied Merta in the same year and the capital Jodhpur in 1563.

After the death of Rao Chandrasen in January 1581, Marwar was brought under direct Mughal administration. In August 1583, Akbar restored the throne of Marwar to Udai Singh, who, unlike his predecessors, submitted to the Mughals and subsequently joined the Mughal service.