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Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament

Lucy Moore

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A rare, exotic portrait of the matriarchs of a brilliant Indian family

Ranging from the final days of the Raj and the British Empire to the present, Lucy Moore vividly re-creates a splendid lost world and describes India's national growing pains through the sumptuous, audacious lives of four ravishing, influential women of the same family- Sunity Devi, friend to Queen Victoria; Chimnabai, fierce nationalist; Indira, her flamboyant daughter; and Ayesha, her equally fashionable daughter- who fought tirelessly and with incomparable grace to turn an ancient tradition of noblesse oblige into a progressive democracy.

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ISBN10:: 0143037048

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Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament

Lucy Moore

3.88/5 (225 ratings)

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A rare, exotic portrait of the matriarchs of a brilliant Indian family

Ranging from the final days of the Raj and the British Empire to the present, Lucy Moore vividly re-creates a splendid lost world and describes India's national growing pains through the sumptuous, audacious lives of four ravishing, influential women of the same family- Sunity Devi, friend to Queen Victoria; Chimnabai, fierce nationalist; Indira, her flamboyant daughter; and Ayesha, her equally fashionable daughter- who fought tirelessly and with incomparable grace to turn an ancient tradition of noblesse oblige into a progressive democracy.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0143037048

ISBN13:: 9780143037040

kindle Asin:: 0143037048

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