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 and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses (TPB) (Group)
titlecomplete: Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses (TPB) (Group) (India)
genres: India, Womens Studies, Feminism, Biography, Historical, Asia, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Womens, History
ratings_count: 309
publisher: Viking