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Maharanis:a Family Saga Of Four Queens
[Paperback - 2006]
lucy moore
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Category: History
Sub-category: South Asian History
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780143037040 | Pages: 384
Shipping Weight: .352 | Dimensions: 5.5 x .96 x 8.37 inches

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Through the sumptuous, adventurous lives of three generations of Indian queens—from the period following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to the present, Lucy Moore traces the cultural and political changes that transformed their world. This is the fantastic nonfiction version of The Jewel in the Crown.

Until the 1920s, to be a Maharani, wife to the Maharajah, was to be tantalizingly close to the power and glamour of the Raj, but locked away in purdah. Even the educated, progressive Maharani of Baroda, Chimnabai—born into the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Mutiny—began her marriage this way, but her ravishing daughter, Indira, had other ideas. She became the Regent of Cooch Behar, one of the wealthiest regions of India while her daughter, Ayesha, was elected to Indian Parliament. The lives of these influential, immensely colorful women embodied the delicate interplay between rulers and the ruled, race and culture, subservience and independence, Eastern and Western ideas, and ancient and modern ways of life in the bejeweled exuberance of Indian aristocratic life in the final days both of the Raj and the British Empire. Tracing these larger-than-life characters as they bust every known stereotype, Lucy Moore creates a vivid picture of an emerging modern, democratic society in India and the tumultuous period of Imperialism from which it arose.
 
“A fascinating picture of a vanished world.”—Sarah Bradford, author of America’s Queen and Lucrezia Borgia

About the Author

Lucy Moore was born in 1970 and educated in Britain and the United States before reading history at Edinburgh University. She is the editor ofCon Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld, and author of the critically acclaimedThe Thieves Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker, and Jack Sheppard, House-Breaker(Viking 1996) as well asAmphibious Thing: the Life of a Georgian Rake(Viking 2000) andMaharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses(Viking 2004).Maharanishas been reprinted six times, was anEvening Standardbestseller, and the top selling non-fiction title in WH Smith on paperback publication in summer 2005.Lucy is a regular book reviewer for theObserverand theSunday Times. In April 2001, she was voted one of the 'Top Twenty Young Writers in Britain' by theIndependent on Sundayand in the 'Writers' section of theNew Statesman's 'Best of Young British' issue.Television presenter work includesNelsonforGreat Britons(BBC) andKings in Waiting: Edward VII(BBC) plus a number of talking head appearances.

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