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'''Hadi Rani''' was a Queen of [[Rajasthan]] in India.<ref>{{cite book |title=Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories |editor-first=Nita |editor-last=Kumar |publisher=University of Virginia Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-81391-522-7 |page=35 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=li2OS4QYPDoC&pg=PA35 |chapter=Gender, Violence and Power |first=Ann Grodzins |last=Gold}}</ref> She was a daughter of [[Hada (clan)|Hada Chauhan]] [[Rajput]] married to Ratan Singh, a [[Chundawat]] chieftain of [[Salumbar]] in [[Mewar]] who sacrificed herself to motivate her husband to go to a battle.<ref name="Saccidānandan2001">{{cite book|author=Saccidānandan|title=Indian Poetry: Modernism and After : a Seminar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AXiNXRM_KzMC&pg=PA118|year=2001|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1092-9|page=118}}</ref>

When [[Raj Singh I|Maharana Raj Singh I]] (1653–1680) of Mewar called Ratan Singh to join the battle against [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Aurangzeb]], the commander, having married only a few days earlier hesitated about doing so. Perceptions of Rajput honour caused him to join the battle despite his reservations. He asked his wife, Hadi Rani, for some memento to take with him to the battlefield. Thinking that she was an obstacle to his doing his duty for Mewar, she cut off her head and put it on a plate. A servant covered it with a cloth and presented it to her husband. Devastated but nevertheless proud, the commander tied the memento around his neck by its hair. He fought bravely, making the Aurangzeb's forces to flee, and after his victory, he got to his knees and cut his neck, having lost the desire to live.

==Legacy==
Still today, people worship her in Rajasthan and folklore singers tell her story in songs about her chivalry, valor, courage. She is also inspiration of various stories, poems and songs in Rajasthan and her story is part of curriculum in Rajasthan. [[Hadi Rani Ki Baori]] is a [[stepwell]] located in [[Todaraisingh]] town in [[Tonk district]] of [[Rajasthan]] state in India. It is believed that it was built in 12th century CE.<ref name="Pink City">{{cite web|title=Hadi Rani ki Baori|url=https://jaipur.org/2016/08/03/hadi-rani-ki-baori/|publisher=Pink City|date=3 August 2016}}</ref> [[Rajasthan Police]] has formed a women's battalion named 'Hadi Rani Mahila Battalion'<ref name="Patrika">{{cite web|title=The Rajput Kshatrani story of Rajasthan|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hi&u=https://www.patrika.com/jaipur-news/know-inspirational-history-of-hadi-rani-of-salumber-udaipur-1-1790205/&prev=search&pto=aue|publisher=Patrika|date=7 September 2017}}</ref> A [[Bollywood]] director announced a movie to make on her however that project was shut down after Padmavat as it was banned in various parts of India. {{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

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