Razia, queen of India
By: Rafiq Zakaria ; foreword by P.B. Gajendragadkar ; preface by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri ;  illustrations by Shiavax Chavda.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Karachi,Pakistan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Razia, Sultana of Delhi, d. 1240
Description: "The story of Razia - one of the most colourful characters in Indian history, and the only queen who ever sat on the throne of Delhi - is told here in an eminently readable work which is essentially historical in its context, but woven with fiction to bind the material." "Razia, to whom no serious historian has paid any attention in the past, turns out to be singularly fascinating and elusive. In the Epilogue the author explains at length how he became interested in the story of Razia, how he collected and evaluated source material, developed the theme, and finally how he resurrected the Queen from the jungle of evidential data."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 155-156.