Princess Abida Sultaan was a unique and extraordinary personality. Unique because she remains the only ruler or heir of a major Indian princely state to have migrated from India to Pakistan--sacrificing a life of comfort and security in pursuit of her ideals. Extraordinary because she was a woman of remarkable qualities and paradoxes. Her autobiography spans the glittering era of the princely states, in which Bhopal was second only to Hyderabad in importance ...
