Introduction

Epigraphy has proved to be indispensable and is among the most authentic source material for writing female history. However, despite a long list of decipherment and compilation of inscriptions, research on female issues has remained unexplored for a long time. This chapter decodes an alternative politics, suggesting that most of the early historians who depicted women through literature failed to justify that female history of the early medieval period is not that bleak or decadent as is generally believed. On the contrary, this book indicates that it is varied, rich and complex in its content and character when it comes to inscriptions.