[INDOLOGY] First female sovereign

[Klaus Karttunen]

Rich,
your memory is right, the section is on p. 118ff. The earliest case he mentions is Vākāṭaka Queen Prabhāvatī Gupta (until 443 CE) and he also lists a number of other cases. Discussing the legal background, he refers to Kane  3, 40, Arthaśāstra 5, 6, 34 and Raghuvaṁśa 19, 57.

Best,
Klaus

Klaus Karttunen
South Asian and Indoeuropean Studies
Asian and African Studies, Department of World Cultures
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> On 02 Nov 2016, at 03:06, Richard Salomon <rsalomon at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall that there was an excursus on queens in traditional
> India in O. von Hinueber's book on the Palola Shahis, but I don't have a
> copy at hand.
> 
> Rich Salomon
> 
> 
> On 11/2/2016 4:56 AM, Michael Slouber wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> Who was the first female sovereign in India?  I know about Razia Sultana in the 13th century, but were there any earlier?  Has there been any more recent research on Razia since Rafiq Zakaria’s 1966 book?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> ––
>> Michael Slouber
>> Assistant Professor of South Asia
>> Department of Liberal Studies
>> Western Washington University
>> 
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