Author: Lucy Moore
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190514X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In Maharnis 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.
Maharanis
Author: Lucy Moore
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190514X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In Maharnis 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.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190514X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In Maharnis 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.
Maharani's Misery
Author: Verene Shepherd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766401214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Following the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, a concerted effort was made to replace enslaved labour with indentured Indian labour. This is the story of one Indian woman's tragic experience in trying to immigrate to the Caribbean in the 19th century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766401214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Following the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, a concerted effort was made to replace enslaved labour with indentured Indian labour. This is the story of one Indian woman's tragic experience in trying to immigrate to the Caribbean in the 19th century.
The Patna Law Times ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
All India Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Indian Cases
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Manipur, Past and Present
Author: Naorem Sanajaoba
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170998532
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170998532
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Maharanis
Author: Lucy Moore
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
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 as near chattel. 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 the Indian Parliament. The lives of these influential women embodied the delicate interplay between rulers and 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 tumultous period of Imperialism from which it arose. 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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
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 as near chattel. 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 the Indian Parliament. The lives of these influential women embodied the delicate interplay between rulers and 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 tumultous period of Imperialism from which it arose. 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.
Maharani
Author: Jarmani Dass
Publisher: New Delhi : S. Chand
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: New Delhi : S. Chand
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Maharanis
Author: K. G. Pramod Kumar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935677642
Category : Black-and-white photography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935677642
Category : Black-and-white photography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Last Maharani of Gwalior
Author: Vijaya R. Scindia
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887066597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is a description of contemporary India and some of its recent history in the form of an autobiography. Rajmata Scindia is a member of the Indian Parliament. As a maharani she had thousands of servants and several enormous palaces. Since Independence, which marked the end of the supremacy of the Maharajas, she has emerged as one of Indias most popular political leaders, first with the Congress party and now with the opposition. Her appeal to the masses, who see her as an image of Mother India, amazes both her admirers and her critics.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887066597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is a description of contemporary India and some of its recent history in the form of an autobiography. Rajmata Scindia is a member of the Indian Parliament. As a maharani she had thousands of servants and several enormous palaces. Since Independence, which marked the end of the supremacy of the Maharajas, she has emerged as one of Indias most popular political leaders, first with the Congress party and now with the opposition. Her appeal to the masses, who see her as an image of Mother India, amazes both her admirers and her critics.