Jauhar
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Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, was a practice of mass self-immolation by Rajput kshatriya women and girls in the Indian subcontinent to avoid capture, sex slavery, enslavement, and rape wh
The Rajput ceremony of Jauhar, 1567, as depicted by Ambrose Dudley in Hutchinsons History of the Nations, c. 1910
Sultan Alau'd Din put to Flight; Women of Ranthambhor commit Jauhar. Indian, Pahari style painting from c. 1825
The self-immolation (jauhar) of the Hindu women, during the Siege of Chittorgarh in 1568
Rani Padmini
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Padmini, also known as Padmavati or Rani Padmavati, was a 13th–14th century queen of the Kingdom of Mewar in India. Several medieval texts mention her, although these versions are disparate and many m
Jauhar
…the first jauhar of Chittorgarh occurred during the 1303 siege of the Chittor fort. This jauhar became a subject of legendary Rajasthani poems, with Rani Padmini the main character, wherein she and other Rajput women commit jauhar to avoid being captured by Alauddin Khalji, a Muslim ruler of the Delhi Sultanate…
An 18th-century painting of Padmini
Queen Nagmati talks to her parrot, an illustrated manuscript of Padmavat from c. 1750 CE
An 1878 painting of Padmini's purported palace
A 2010 photograph of the Padmini Palace