Wicked Women of the Raj: European Women Who Broke Society Rules and Married Life - Couverture souple

Younger, Coralie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8172234546 ISBN 13 : 9788172234546

Editeur : HarperCollins India, 2020

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Wicked Women Of The Raj is 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. The 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 fairytale? 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.

Revue de presse :

Very interesting & captivating story & well worth reading for a picture of that era and the western women who married maharajas. I read it and then bought a copy for a friend. I highly recommend it, thought the writing is more journalistic and not the beautiful, evocative prose of Leila Hadley's "A Journey with Elsa Cloud" about her journey in India with her daughter and her own inner journey, a book of a different higher calibre entirely. It more resembles --By LSL 25 January 2015

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins India
• Date d'édition: 2020
• ISBN 10: 8172234546
• ISBN 13: 9788172234546
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260