In Maharanis Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four women: two grandmothers, a daughter and a granddaughter, all of them princesses of the royal courts of India. Chimnabai, Maharani of Baroda, was a proud nationalist and one of the founders of the women’s movement India. Her husband famously snubbed the king of England during the Coronation Durbar of 1911. Sunity came from a progressive Bengali family but was married as a teenage bride to the ...
