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Subject: Painting by Sudhansu Ghose illustrated in The Rajput Princesses, by the dowager Maharani of Cooch Behar (date unknown). Traditional stories of heroism and sacrifices to duty by Indian princesses told of self-immolation, suicide, and sati. However, it seems curious that such a book should be written by a woman who married for love though her father had promised her to Scindia of Gwalior. [Padmini Urges the Women of Chitor to Commit the Rite of Self-Immolation to Escape the Clutches of Ala-Ud-Din Khalji in 1303]
