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Open access 2026

Breaking the Fetters of Family and Shame: Meerabai, Krishna Bhakti, and the Gendered Politics of Devotion in Sixteenth-Century Rajasthan

Meerabai (also Mirabai; c. 1498–c. 1546), a Rathore princess of Merta who was married into the Sisodia house of Mewar, is among the most widely remembered women saints of the North Indian bhakti tradition. Later hagiography presents her as a widow who refused sati, rejected the honor codes of a Rajput court, sang and d...

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