Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Pages / Font | 368 pages |
| ISBN 13 | 9780143037040 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143037048 |
| Notes | 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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