Maharanis
The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2004
384 pages
978-0-14-190514-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Maharnis Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four princesses - two grandmothers, a mother and a daughter - of the Royal courts of India. Their extraordinary story takes in tiger hunts, exotic palaces and lavish ceremonies in India, as well as the glamorous international scene of the Edwardian and interwar era. It is also an intimate portrait of four remarkable women - Chimnabai, Sunity, Indira and Ayesha - who changed the world they lived in. Through their lives Lucy Moore tells the history of a nation during an era of great change: the rise and fall of the Raj from the Indian Mutiny to Independence and beyond.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
5,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-14-190514-3 (9780141905143)
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07/2005
Penguin Books Ltd
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Person
Lucy Moore was educated in Britain and the United States before reading history at Edinburgh University. She is the author of nine books including Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses (Viking 2004); Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (Harper Collins 2006); Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties (Atlantic 2008); and, most recently, In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology (Atlantic 2022). Over the years she has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines including Prospect, the Observer, the Sunday Times, Vogue, the Ecologist and Bazaar and reviews regularly for the Literary Review. Television presenter work includes the three-part series 'History of Prostitution' (Sky) in 2006 and 'Nelson' for Great Britons (BBC2) in 2002 as well as numerous talking head appearances. She lives in Wiltshire with her husband and two sons. For more information please visit lucymoorebooks.co.uk .
