Koka Kumari Begum was a consort of the fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir.
Family Koka Kumari Begum belonged to the Kachhwaha clan and was the daughter of Yuvraj Jagat Singh, the eldest son of Raja Man Singh of Amer.
Marriage
Her marriage to Jahangir took place on 17 June 1608. Koka Kumari was a widow before Jahangir married her. Jahangir sent Jagat Singh 80,000 rupees as sachaq (wedding present) so that he could marry her. The marriage was a political one intended to suppress the threat posed by Man Singh, who, along with Mirza Aziz Koka, was part of the court faction formed by Prince Khusrau Mirza, and supported him as a potential successor instead of Prince Salim. The aftermath of Khusrau's rebellion and his subsequent ploy to murder his father culminated in his confinement in Lahore until 1607, followed by his blinding and imprisonment in Agra.Findly 1993, p. 33-34 Jahangir's marriage to Man Singh's granddaughter was an indication of his goodwill toward the Kingdom of Amer and the Kachhwaha clan after the tumultuous rebellion of Khusrau, who was the son of Jahangir's Kachhwaha consort Shah Begum.
The wedding took place at the palace of Queen Mariam-uz-Zamani with great grandeur. Jahangir had personally arranged the wedding and gave Jagat Singh a rare European tapestry from the bay of Cambay. As part of the dowry, Man Singh gifted sixty elephants to the Imperial family.
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