Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c47.s2.7
Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c47.s2.7
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∗ Such morganatic wives are known by the Persian title of Pāsbān (popularly, Pāsbāni or Pāsbānin) and were found in every class of Rajput society which had the money to keep one. Anand Rao Gangadhar, [18 April 1792, Satara H.P. i. 341] gives her the name of Gulāb Rāi (Flower Queen); but Gulāb Rāi, as we know from the Maratha envoy's despatch (p. 8) was also the name of the Jodhpur vakil in Sindhia's camp, and his son Nawal Rāi offered to secure from that Maratha chief a confirmation of the fief of Nāgor to her son Tej Singh. Pandit Reu calls her a Jāt, Tod an Oswāl by caste.