(EN) Sabita Singh, The Politics of Marriage in India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan, Oxford University Press, 27 maggio 2019, p. 154, ISBN 978-0-19-909828-6.
«In medieval Rajasthan, there seems to have been different categories of concubines. The pardayat was given chuda (bangles) by the Rani almost accepting her as a co-wife. Also, the Rajputs could keep woman of any caste as pardayat but not a Charan, Brahmin, or a Rajput woman.»