Author: Coralie Younger
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 260
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172234546
Description
An unputdownable factual account of the zenana world of the rajas and sultans of India, concentrating on the firangi bahus and begums of this veiled world of myths and folklores. This book gives us the stories of twenty different European women who broke society’s rules to marry the heathen Indian princes.
Who were these women? Were they gold-diggers, or hopeless romantics hoping to enact their own Cinderella fairy-tale? Did they live happily ever after? Set against the backdrop of India’s independence struggle, the book has a delicious and potent mix of flavours – the end of the British Raj and the downfall of the pompous and extravagant Indian aristocracy.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The Princes
BAMBA MULLER
Married Maharajah Duleep Singh of the Punjab, fifth king of Lahore
ADA DOUGLAS WETHERILL
Married Maharajah Duleep Singh
FLORRIE BRYAN
Married Maharajah Rajender Singh of Patiala
OLIVE MONOLESCUE
Married Ranbir Singh, maharajah of Jind
ANITA DELGADO
Married Maharajah Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala
EUGENIE GROSUPOVA
Married Maharajah Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala
DOLLY PARNELL
Married Prince Nasir Ali Khan of Rampur
ELSIE THOMPSON
Married Gopal Narain Singh, maharajah of Tikari
MOLLY FINK
Married Martanda Bhairava Tondaiman, rajah of Pudukkottai
MORAGA MURRAY
Married Syed Abdullah of Koh Fort
NANCY MILLER
Married Maharajah Tukoji Rao Holkar of Indore
MOLLY ELSIP
Married Prince Ali Khan of Jaora
STELLA MUDGE
Married Paramjit Singh, maharajah of Kapurthala
MARGUERITE LAWLER
Married Yeshwant Rao Holkar, maharajah of Indore
EUPHEMIA CRANE
Married Yeshwant Rao Holkar, maharajah of Indore
JOAN FALKINER
Married Nawab Taley Mohamed Khan of Palanpur
SANDRA MCBRYDE
Married Hanwant Singh, maharajah of Jodhpur
YVONNE MARTIN
Married Nawabzada Mohamed Mubarak Abbasi of Bahawalpur
ANNABELLA PARKER
Married Bhagwat Singh, maharana of Udaipur
HELEN SIMMONS
Married Mukarram Jah Bahadur, nizam of Hyderabad
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