[INDOLOGY] First female sovereign

[Dominic Goodall]

Do widowed queens who continued as regents after their husbands’ deaths not count?

Surely there must be a few of these from much earlier periods. Prabhāvatī Guptā is one.  Another from further afield might be Kulaprabhāvatī, known from a fifth-century Cambodian inscription that seems to have been composed after her husband’s death (K. 875, Journal of the Greater India Society IV, p.117).

Dominic Goodall
> On 02-Nov-2016, at 6:55 AM, Nemec, John William (nemec) (jwn3y) <jwn3y at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> No one has mentioned Queen DiddA, who reigned in 980-1003 A.D./C.E. in Kashmir, according to Kalha.a/Stein's dating. See the 6th taraGga. I think she also briefly ascended to the throne prior to this, as well, again according to Kalha.na. She is also known from the numismatic evidence; Cunningham records exemplars of her coinage, which was heavily alloyed. 
> 
> I've always just assumed there were other, earlier queens, and would be interested to know more.  I'll look up the reference Rich gives us but hope others chime in.
> 
> John Nemec
> 
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> 
> 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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