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100 1 $aMoore, Lucy,$d1970-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97083009
245 10 $aMaharanis :$bthe extraordinary tale of four Indian queens and their journey from purdah to parliament /$cLucy Moore.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2005.
300 $aix, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-332) and index.
520 1 $a"Here is a rare glimpse behind purdah's curtain into the lives of four brilliant maharanis - the wives of maharajas - who helped shepherd princely India into the twentieth century. Tracing the lives of these influential women from the final days of the raj and the British Empire to the present, Lucy Moore vividly re-creates a splendid lost world as well as describes the growing pains of the emerging democratic society in India." "Educated, nationalist Chimnabai, born in 1871, in the wake of the "Indian Mutiny" of 1857, began her marriage in purdah but broke it in 1913, and spent the rest of her life campaigning tirelessly for women's rights. The comparatively demure Sunity Devi was a favorite of the British aristocracy and made Queen Victoria the godmother of her son, Victor. Her prim demeanor belied a passionate social activism on behalf of the poor and uneducated. The more flamboyant Indira, Chimnabai's ravishing daughter, broke off an arranged marriage so she could marry Sunity Devi's dashing son, Jit. But when her beloved husband died young, far from committing sati, she became the regent of his state, Cooch Behar, a job she took on with gusto though she maintained a sybaritic life abroad." "Ayesha, Indira's equally fashionable daughter and friend to the Kennedys, was elected - with the greatest majority ever recorded - to the Parliament of an independent India in 1962. She remains a social activist and benefactress to this day." "It is through their struggles that we begin to understand the nuance in any interaction between the rulers and the ruled, race and class, subservience and independence, Eastern and Western ideas, and ancient and modern ways of life. Maharanis is the story of four magnificent queens who defied centuries of tradition to embrace lives of adventure, passion, and political engagement."--BOOK JACKET.
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