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A rare, exotic portrait of the matriarchs of a brilliant Indian familyRanging 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. BACKCOVER: "Scintillating. Moore revels in every detail—from the elegance of the maharanis' attire, to the complexities of Indian family life and politics, to the trauma and heroism of breaking with tradition."—Booklist (starred review)"A fascinating picture of a vanished world."—Sarah Bradford, author of Lucrezia Borgia

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Penguin Group UK
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English

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Maharanis
2010, Penguin USA, Inc.
Electronic resource in English
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Maharanis
2008, Penguin Group UK
Electronic resource in English
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Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament
June 27, 2006, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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Maharanis: a family saga of four queens
2006, Penguin
in English
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Maharanis
July 7, 2005, Penguin Books Ltd
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Cover of: Maharanis
Maharanis
September 2, 2004, Viking
Hardcover
Cover of: Maharanis
Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament
December 29, 2004, Viking Adult
Hardcover in English
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Maharanis
1991, Viking
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OL24278141M
ISBN 13
9780141905143
OverDrive
30671CAF-239C-4C3B-A674-C19BE75EC7E7

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In November 1911, it might have seemed as if every one of India's nearly 300 million inhabitants was heading for Delhi.
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July 17, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
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