Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses - Hardcover

Moore, Lucy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670912875 ISBN 13: 9780670912872

Publisher: Viking, 2004

Synopsis

In MAHARANIS Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four princesses - two grandmothers, a mother and a daughter - of the Royal courts of India. Their extraordinary story takes in tiger hunts, exotic palaces and lavish ceremonies in India, as well as the glamorous international scene of the Edwardian and interwar era. It is also an intimate portrait of four remarkable women - Chimnabai, Sunity, Indira and Ayesha - who changed the world they lived in. Through their lives Lucy Moore tells the history of a nation during an era of great change: the rise and fall of the Raj from the Indian Mutiny to Independence and beyond.

About this title

Review:

'Fascinating ... engrossing, an absorbingly intelligent and thoughtful book [with] an unusually strong feeling of authenticity' -- Sunday Times

About the Author:

Lucy Moore is the author of The Thieves' Opera and Amphibious Thing and edited Con Men and Cutpurses. She writes often for the Observer, Telegraph, regularly appears on TV and is considered one of Britain most exciting historians.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670912875
• ISBN 13: 9780670912872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368