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“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― The Inheritance of Loss
― The Inheritance of Loss
“They were pragmatic about women who ‘fell’ to an enemy, unlike their contemporaries, the Rajputs, who invested so heavily in their women’s sexual chastity that death, through sati, was preferred to ‘loss of honour’ to an enemy.”
― Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
― Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
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