#RajaTodarMal

“Almost everything we know about Rani Durgāvatī comes from the records of the empire that destroyed her — and even there, in the victor's own book, the invasion reads as naked greed and the queen reads as a hero.”

“A widowed queen ran one of the best-governed states in sixteenth-century India — building reservoirs that still hold water — and when the Mughal empire came for her treasure, she fought it with an outmatched army and chose death over capture.”