Hadi Rani

Hadi Rani a folk heroine of Rajasthan in India.[1] The legends say that she was a daughter of a Hada Rajput married to a Chundawat chieftain of Salumbar in Mewar who sacrificed herself to motivate her husband to go to war.[2]

When Maharana Raj Singh I (1653–1680) of Mewar called Rawat Ratan Singh Chundawat to join the battle against Aurangzeb, the Rawat, having married only a few days earlier hesitated about doing so. Perceptions of Rajput honour caused him to join the battle despite his reservations. He asked his wife, Hadi Rani, for some memento to take with him to the battlefield. Thinking that she was an obstacle to his doing his duty for Mewar, she cut off her head and put it on a plate. A servant covered it with a cloth and presented it to her husband. Devastated but nevertheless proud, the son tied the memento around his neck by its hair. He fought bravely, making the Aurangzeb forces flee, and after his victory, he got to his knees and cut his neck, having lost the desire to live.

References

  1. ↑ Gold, Ann Grodzins (1994). "Gender, Violence and Power". In Kumar, Nita. Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. University of Virginia Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-81391-522-7.
  2. ↑ Saccidānandan (2001). Indian Poetry: Modernism and After : a Seminar. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-81-260-1092-9. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
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