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'''Deval Devi''' (variantly known as '''Dewal Devi''', '''Dewal Rani''', '''Deval Rani''' and '''Dewal Di''') was daughter of [[Karna (Vaghela dynasty)|Karan Deva II]] (the last sovereign of the [[Vaghela dynasty]] of [[Gujarat]]). She was married to Khizr Khan, the eldest son of [[Alauddin Khalji]], in 1308. Eight years later, Khizr Khan was executed by his brother [[Qutb ud din Mubarak Shah]] (1316–20), and Deval was taken into the latter's ''[[harem]].'' In 1320, Mubarak in turn was stabbed and beheaded by his supposed favourite, [[Khusro Khan]] (the last ruler of the [[Khalji dynasty]]), and his followers. Deval was then married to Khusro Khan. Her story, of a cultured and high-born Hindu princess being passed from hand to hand amongst a series of ambitious, power-hungry men is the basis of the celebrated [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] historical novel ''[[Karan Ghelo]]'' authored by [[Nandshankar Mehta]]. | '''Deval Devi''' (variantly known as '''Dewal Devi''', '''Dewal Rani''', '''Deval Rani''' and '''Dewal Di''') was daughter of [[Karna (Vaghela dynasty)|Karan Deva II]] (the last sovereign of the [[Vaghela dynasty]] of [[Gujarat]]).She was married to Khizr Khan, the eldest son of [[Alauddin Khalji]], in 1308. Eight years later, Khizr Khan was executed by his brother [[Qutb ud din Mubarak Shah]] (1316–20), and Deval was taken into the latter's ''[[harem]].'' In 1320, Mubarak in turn was stabbed and beheaded by his supposed favourite, [[Khusro Khan]] (the last ruler of the [[Khalji dynasty]]), and his followers. Deval was then married to Khusro Khan. Her story, of a cultured and high-born Hindu princess being passed from hand to hand amongst a series of ambitious, power-hungry Muslim men is the basis of the celebrated [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] historical novel ''[[Karan Ghelo]]'' authored by [[Nandshankar Mehta]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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Mubarak Shah was bisexual, and he was murdered by the associates of his favorite catamite, [[Khusro Khan]], on the night of 14 April 1320.<ref name="Houtsma1993">{{cite book|last=Houtsma |first=M. Th. |title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA1168 |year=1993 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-09790-2 |page=1168 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415040849/https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC |archive-date=2016-04-15 }}</ref> [[Ziauddin Barani]], the contemporary historian, writes that Khusro Khan then married Deval Devi, thus becoming her third husband.{{Sfn|Mahajan|2015|p=154}}<ref name="Chaurasia2002">{{cite book|last=Chaurasia|first=Radhey Shyam|title=History of Medieval India: From 1000 A.D. to 1707 A.D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XnaL7zPXPUC&pg=PA46|year=2002|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0123-4|page=46}}</ref> | Mubarak Shah was bisexual, and he was murdered by the associates of his favorite catamite, [[Khusro Khan]], on the night of 14 April 1320.<ref name="Houtsma1993">{{cite book|last=Houtsma |first=M. Th. |title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA1168 |year=1993 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-09790-2 |page=1168 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415040849/https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC |archive-date=2016-04-15 }}</ref> [[Ziauddin Barani]], the contemporary historian, writes that Khusro Khan then married Deval Devi, thus becoming her third husband.{{Sfn|Mahajan|2015|p=154}}<ref name="Chaurasia2002">{{cite book|last=Chaurasia|first=Radhey Shyam|title=History of Medieval India: From 1000 A.D. to 1707 A.D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XnaL7zPXPUC&pg=PA46|year=2002|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0123-4|page=46}}</ref> | ||
The ''[[Karan Ghelo]]'' tells us that this marriage, her third, was acceptable to Deval Devi, ( though there is not much information available about her first marriage) mainly because [[Khusro Khan]] came from a background similar to her own. Born into a Rajput family, he had been captured as a young boy during a battle, brought up by Malik Shadi, the naib-i khas-i hajib (deputy royal chamberlain) to Alauddin Khalji in Delhi as muslim, where later his good looks had earned him the favour of Mubarak Shah, all of which is | The ''[[Karan Ghelo]]'' tells us that this marriage, her third, was acceptable to Deval Devi, ( though there is not much information available about her first marriage) mainly because [[Khusro Khan]] came from a background similar to her own. Born into a Rajput family, he had been captured as a young boy during a battle, brought up by Malik Shadi, the naib-i khas-i hajib (deputy royal chamberlain) to Alauddin Khalji in Delhi as muslim, where later his good looks had earned him the favour of Mubarak Shah, all of which is corroborated by [[Ziauddin Barani|Barani]]. However, after a reign of only five months, Khusro Khan was defeated by [[Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq]] and was put to death. This happened in September 1320. Historical sources are silent about Deval Devi's fate thereafter, but the ''[[Karan Ghelo]]'' tells us that she took recourse to poison and joined Khusro Khan in death. However, Karan Ghelo is not a historical text. | ||
==In literature== | ==In literature== | ||