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MEERA,

SANGA

and

MEWAR

OTHER INDIAINK TITLES

Anjana Basu	Black Tongue
Anjana Basu	Chinku and the Wolfboy
Anuradha Majumdar	Infinity Paper: A mysterious quest, an unforgettable adventure
Boman Desai	Servant, Master, Mistress
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni	Shadowland
Claudine Le Tourneur dlson	Hira Mandi
C.P. Surendran	An Iron Harvest
I. Allan Sealy	The Everest Hotel
I. Allan Sealy	Trotternama
Indrajit Hazra	The Garden of Earthly Delights
Jaspreet Singh	17 Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir
Jawahara Saidullah	The Burden of Foreknowledge
John MacLithon	Hindutva, Sex & Adventure
Kalpana Swaminathan	The Page 3 Murders
Kalpana Swaminathan	The Gardeners Song
Kamalini Sengupta	The Top of the Raintree
Lavanya Arvind Shanbaoug	The Heavens We Chase
Madhavan Kutty	The Village Before Time
Pankaj Mishra	The Romantics
Paro Anand	Im Not Butter Chicken
Paro Anand	Wingless
Paro Anand	Weed
Paro Anand	Pure Sequence
Paro Anand	No Guns at my Sons Funeral
Rakesh Satyal	Blue Boy
Ranjit Lal	Bambi Chops and Wags
Ranjit Lal	The Life &Times of Altu-Faltu
Ranjit Lal	The Small Tigers of Shergarh
Ranjit Lal	The Simians of South Block and Yumyum Piglets
Sanjay Bahadur	The Sound of Water
Sanjay Bahadur	Hul: Cry Rebel!
Selina Sen	A Mirror Greens in Spring
Shandana Minhas	Tunnel Vision
Sharmistha Mohanty	New Life
Shree Ghatage	Brahmas Dream
Sudhir Thapliyal	Crossing the Road
Susan Visvanathan	Nelycinda and Other Stories
Susan Visvanathan	The Visiting Moon
Susan Visvanathan	The Seine at Noon
Tanushree Podder	Escape from Harem

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Not by the Vedas, or an austere life, or gifts to the poor, or ritual offerings, can I be seen as you have seen me. Only by Love can people see me and come to me.

The Bhagavad Gita

Authors Note

Some of the Indian subcontinents greatest poets, musicians, and mystical saints lived in the sixteenth century CE. Among them was a Rajput princess of the Rathor clan, called Meera Bai. And by attempting to tell her rather incredible story, I was trapped by a self-created dilemma. How was I to create a plausible Meera character out of the fast-moving medley of disorder and divine benediction that was her strange life, while basing it largely on her own unverifiable claims, the legends surrounding her, and themes and incidents that contradicted normal perceptions of reality?

Let me start by saying that I believe in the supernatural, and the paranormal one strong reason why I was impelled so deeply and mysteriously into researching and writing this story. For me, these phenomena arent something beyond scientific and rational explanations. They are the inexplicable elements of our existence altered by forces that are not understood fully, if at all.

The Hindu belief in Hanuman who travelled thousands of miles in a single somersault, or the Christian belief in a virgins Immaculate Conception, and the ascension of her child to a place in the sky called heaven, sound equally implausible. But these are important elements in two of the worlds major living religions, and accepted as a testimony of faith by their followers. No Hindu believer in the Krishna cult doubts the honesty and authenticity of Meera Bais seances, her poetic utterances, and the strange events of her life. In fact, over the centuries, she has herself emerged as a cult figure in the Krishna Bhakti movement.

But my dilemma as a writer came to the fore when I began the process of fusing together my personal belief in her life story with the actual history of her era. It was necessary to put her in the historical context, when the context was such a solemn, commemorative and celebrative aspect of the Indian Bhakti movement and culture. My book about Meera Bai would seem to demand a willing suspension of disbelief as well as judgement. Coleridge had suggested that the writer could infuse human interest and semblance of truth into a fantastic tale to help readers suspend judgement concerning the implausibility of any narrative. I have endeavoured to do just that chapters in this book containing actual historical battles and intrigues are followed by others containing pure fantasy and surrealistic happenings! The historical part of this narrative is interspersed with the life of a person who is totally real in the historic sense. Meera herself, and some of her family members and contemporaries, talked and wrote about the miracles which her personal deity Krishna performed throughout her life.

Meeras was a charmed life revolving around her great love for Krishna based on recurring past-life memories about their special relationship; and her determination to achieve reunion with this historic Krishna, worshipped in India as a reincarnation of God, moulded her personality and life choices.

Blessed with great beauty, intellect, poetic gifts, and a magical singing voice, Meera lived life on her own terms. But she still managed to secure the support and admiration of her grandfather Rao Duda of Merta, and her father-in-law, Rana Sanga of Mewar, the most chivalrous and powerful warrior king ruling medieval Indias largest and wealthiest Rajput kingdom. Though she believed Krishna to be her divine consort, Meeras relationship with her truly evolved earthly husband, Crown Prince Bhoj Raj, points to a very poignant and unusual relationship in the annals of history. I have tried to handle this part of the story as deftly and sensitively as I could.

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