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{{Infobox royalty
| title = [[Raja]] of [[Jaipur State|Amber]]
| reign = 27 January 1574 – 4 December 1589<ref>{{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}}</ref>
| father = [[Bharmal]]
| mother = Phulvati Bai of [[Mandore]]<ref name=BhatnagarP10>{{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}}</ref>
| spouse = {{Plainlist|*Bhagwati Devi Panwar
*Durgavati Bai Rathore}}
| birth_date = 1527
| death_date = 4 December {{death year and age|1589|1527}}
| death_place = [[Lahore]]
| issue = {{Plainlist|*[[Man Singh I]] (1550–1614)
*Madho Singh (1561–1601)
*[[Manbhawati Bai]] (1570–1604)
*Bajresh Singh (1579–1601)
*Anupurva bai (1581–1648)
*Jijayi Ji bai (1589–1622)
*Sur Singh }}
}}
'''Bhagawant Das''' (1527 – 4 December 1589) was a [[Kacchwaha]] ruler of [[Jaipur State|Amber]].

==Life==
[[File:Jaipur 03-2016 04 Amber Fort.jpg|thumb|left|235px|[[Amber Fort]], in [[Amber, India|Amber]], the capital of Raja Bhagwant Das]]
He was the eldest son of Raja [[Bharmal]] and succeeded him, after his death.<ref name="Dundlod1970">{{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}}</ref> Raja Bhagwant was also the elder brother of [[Mariam-uz-Zamani]], one of the wives of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal emperor]] [[Akbar]].<ref name="Hooja2006">{{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}}</ref>

Bhagwant Das was one of the generals of Akbar, who awarded him a mansab (rank) of 5000 in 1585.<ref>{{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}}</ref> and conferred him the title of ''Amir-ul-Umra''.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> He fought many battles for Akbar, including battles in [[Punjab]], [[Kashmir]], and [[Afghanistan]], and was also the governor of [[Kabul]]. Bhagwant Das soundly defeated the army of the [[Kashmir|Kashmiri]] king, [[Yousuf Shah Chak]].<ref>{{harvtxt|Sarkar|1994|p=64}}</ref>

He married his daughter, [[Manbhawati Bai]], to Prince Salim, who later assumed throne as emperor [[Jahangir]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref name="Fisher2019">{{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}}</ref> Their child was Jahangir's eldest son, [[Khusrau Mirza]].<ref name="Singh2001">{{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}}</ref>

Shortly after attending the cremation of [[Todar Mal]] in [[Lahore]], Bhagwant Das, having suffering from a bout of vomiting and [[strangury]], died in 1589.<ref>{{harvtxt|Prasad|1966|pages=77–78}}</ref> He was succeeded by his son from Bhagawati Devi, Raja [[Man Singh I of Amber|Man Singh I]].<ref name="Dundlod1970"/><ref>{{harvtxt|Bhatnagar|1974|pages=9–10}}</ref> His second son, Madho Singh, became the ruler of [[Bhangarh]].<ref>{{harvtxt|Hooja|2006|page=506}}</ref>

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Bhagwant Das'''
|2= 2. [[Bihari Mal]], [[Raja]] of [[Amer, India|Amber]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Eaton |first=Richard |title=India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 |year=2019 |page=130 |isbn=9780141966557 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aIF6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR130 }}</ref>
|3= 3. Phulvati Bai<ref name=BhatnagarP10/>
|4= 4. [[Prithviraj Singh I]], [[Raja]] of [[Jodhpur State|Amber]]<ref name=SarkarP33>{{harvtxt|Sarkar|1994|p=33|loc=[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O0oPIo9TXKcC&pg=PA33]}}</ref>
|5= 5. Apurva Devi (Bala Bai)<ref name=SarkarP33/>
|6= 6. Akhairaj, [[Rao (title)|Rao]] of Bagri<ref name=BhatnagarP10/>
|7=
|8= 8. Chandrasen, [[Raja]] of [[Amer, India|Amber]]<ref>{{harvtxt|Sarkar|1994|p=32|loc=[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O0oPIo9TXKcC&pg=PA32]}}</ref>
|9=
|10= 10. [[Lunkaran]], [[Rao (title)|Rao]] of [[Bikaner State|Bikaner]]<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
|11=
|12= 12. [[Ranmal]], [[Rao (title)|Rao]] of [[Jodhpur State|Marwar]]<ref name=BhatnagarP10/>
|13= Rami Bai of [[Nadol]]<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{harvtxt|Singh|1992|p=145}}</ref>
|14=
|15= }}

==References==
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{{Maharajas of Jaipur}}
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[[Category:Hindu monarchs]]
[[Category:Maharajas of Jaipur]]
[[Category:1589 deaths]]
[[Category:16th-century Indian monarchs]]
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[[Category:1537 births]]

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