Jankibai

Maharani Janki Bai
Empress consort of the Maratha Empire
Tenure	12 March 1689 - 2 March 1700
Born	1675
Died	2 March 1700
Spouse	Rajaram Chhatrapati
House	Bhosale
Father	Prataprao Gujar
Religion	Hinduism

Janki Bhosale (née Gujar) (1675 - 2 March 1700 CE) was Empress consort of the Maratha Empire as the first wife of Rajaram Chhatrapati.

Jankibai was the daughter of Prataprao Gujar, an general, who was the commander-in-chief of the Maratha Empire. Her father died in a battle against the Mughals at Nesari on 24 February 1674. Shivaji, the king of the Marathas upon hearing the solemn news, grieved his general's death. As a result, he married his second son, the ten-year-old Rajaram to the five-year-old Jankibai. They got married in a grand ceremony that took place in Raigad Fort on 7 March 1680. Her father-in-law Shivaji died on 3 April 1680, twenty five days after her marriage.

On 2 March 1700, the thirty-year-old Rajaram died following a brief illness. At his funeral rites, Jankibai committed sati, that is, throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre.

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