Rudramadevi
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Rudramadevi · d. November 1289 · co-regent from c. 1259–60
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Who this is
Sovereign of the Kakatiya dynasty — one of the very few women in Indian history to hold a major throne in her own right, crowned under a man's name and title.
“A daughter crowned as a son held the Deccan for a quarter-century against rebels, rival empires and her own nobility — and history lost her death date until a stone in a village field gave it back, seven hundred years later.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“When the rule says a woman cannot be king, you can fight the rule — or you can make the woman a king. Her father did the second, and for twenty-six years she made the legal fiction true with an army, a fort, and a working state.”
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