Short answers, pulled from the story.
Mariam-uz-Zamani was the chief consort and principal wife of the third Mughal emperor Akbar, and the longest-serving Hindu empress of the Mughal Empire with a reign of forty-three years from 1562 to 1605. She is regarded as the most prodigious female trader of the Mughal empire, the earliest recorded woman to engage consistently in overseas trade, and the mother of Emperor Jahangir and grandmother of Shah Jahan.
The name Jodha Bai does not appear in any contemporary Mughal source and is widely regarded as a historical misnomer. Its earliest known association with Akbar's consort appears in James Tod's 19th-century work Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. The name more plausibly belongs to Jagat Gosain, wife of Emperor Jahangir and daughter of Raja Udai Singh of Jodhpur, not to the Amber princess.
The marriage took place on the 6th of February 1562 at an imperial military camp in Sambhar, Rajasthan, while Akbar was returning to Agra from Ajmer. It was arranged by her father Raja Bharmal of Amer in exchange for Akbar's political protection against harassment from Sharif-ud-din Mirza. Akbar did not require her to convert to Islam and permitted her to maintain a Hindu shrine within the imperial residence.
The Rahimi, Mariam-uz-Zamani's greatest pilgrim ship, was seized and burned by the Portuguese in September 1613 despite carrying a valid Portuguese pass. The cargo was valued at 100,000 pounds and approximately 700 passengers were taken to Goa. The seizure provoked an unprecedented response from Emperor Jahangir, who closed the Jesuit church in Agra, suspended allowances to Portuguese priests, and ordered a siege of the Portuguese town of Daman.
The Begum Shahi Mosque in Lahore, constructed in 1023 A.H. (1614 A.D.), is one of the earliest dated mosques of the Mughal Empire and was commissioned by Mariam-uz-Zamani. It is notable for its painted decorations described as unrivalled for delicacy and variety, and it introduced the five-bay prayer chamber that became standard in later Mughal mosques including the Wazir Khan Mosque and Badshahi Mosque.
Her father Raja Bharmal was immediately granted command of 5,000 cavalry units, the highest noble rank in Akbar's court. Her brother Bhagwant Das reached the same rank by 1585 and bore the title Amir-ul-Umra. Her nephew Man Singh I became the first person in Akbar's reign to command 7,000 forces. Of the twenty-seven Rajputs listed among Akbar's mansabdars by Abu'l-Fazl, thirteen were from the Amber clan.