Thread by @dikgaj

Actually "sati" stories so drummed to prove wife-killer yindu, hide all the stories of historical Muslims killing wives to prevent them appropriated by others. In some versions Baz Bahadur ordered his harem including Rupamati executed when he fled. She was missed or wasnt wounded

https://twitter.com/Thinkerks/status/1458468265189990401

Given her claimed works are deemed to show sophisticated upbringing, she cd hv been initially compromised unwillingly and later submitted to make the best of a bad situation. Bayazid was treacherous, and a known predator who is claimed to hv surprised Rupamati in a forest/river.

I often wonder if the Bayazid Rupamati story's alleged devoted love is a romantic exaggeration of later years, and whether her suicide was out of both a deep sense of hopelessness and betrayal of whatever trust she had tried to clutch on to in her life with Byazid.

She might have also expected an execution any way even if returned to Bayazid out of murderous distrust and jealousy. Kara Mustafa, the Ottoman general who lost the battle of Vienna, had his favourite slave girl's throat slit before he too fled camp.