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
titlecomplete: Maharanis
genres: Historical, Biography, Asia, Nonfiction, India, Womens, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Womens Studies, History
ratings_count: 309
publisher: Viking