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

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

by Lucy Moore

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;... (read more)

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