Tag: Paragraph
Madhav Vinayak Kibe Madhav Vinayak Kibe, 1885, social worker. Born at Kolhapur, in Maharashtra, she was married to Sardar Madhavrao Kibe. She was closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi and …
Khujjuttara Khujjuttara, 560-480 B.C., Buddhist saint. She was named Khujjuttara (`Hunch-backed Uttara’) as she was hunch-backed from her birth. An attendant to Queen Samavati of Kausambi, she was in the …
Khas Mahal, Nawab Khas Mahal, Nawab, 1856, princess of Avadh. She was the principal consort of Wajid All Shah (deposed 1856) the last ruler of Avadh, who bought a …
Khanzada Begum Khanzada Begum, 1478-1545, Mughul princess, eldest sister of Emperor Babar. Daughter of Umar Shaikh Mirza and Qutluq Nigar, she was a full sister of Babar and elder …
Khair-un-Nissa Khair-un-Nissa, d. ca. 1805, Hyderabadi beauty. Daughter of a noble family of Persian descent of Hyderabad, she fell in love with Major James Kirkpatrick, the British Resident at …
Khadija Zaman Begum Khadija Zaman Begum, 1797, princess of Mysore. Daughter of Syed Saheb of Mysore, she became one of the wives of Tipu Sultan in 1795. S he …
Kempananjammani Avaru Kempananjammani Avaru, 1866-1935, queen of Mysore. She was the widow of Maharaja Chama Rajendra Wodeyar who died suddenly in 1894, and became regent to her 10 years …
Rajpati Kaul Rajpati Kaul, 1949, freedom-fighter. Mother of Kamla Nehru, and grandmother of Indira Gandhi, she was the wife of Jawahar-mal Kaul of Delhi. She participated in the Civil …
