Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses (TPB) (Group) (India) - Softcover

Moore, Lucy

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9780670915897: Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses (TPB) (Group) (India)

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ISBN 10: 0670915890 ISBN 13: 9780670915897

Publisher: Viking, 2004

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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.

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'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.

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