num_pages: 351
description: Here is a rare glimpse behind the purdah 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.
language: English
title: Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament
titlecomplete: Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament
genres: Historical, Biography, Asia, Nonfiction, India, Womens, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Womens Studies, History
ratings_count: 309
publisher: Viking Pr