num_pages: 351
description: A rare, exotic portrait of the matriarchs of a brilliant Indian family  Ranging 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.
language: English
title: Maharanis : The Lives of the Indian Princesses
titlecomplete: Maharanis : The Lives of the Indian Princesses
genres: Historical, Feminism, History, India, Asia, Biography Memoir, Womens Studies, Biography, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 309
publisher: Penguin Books