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 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Coralie Younger
Coralile Younger is a dedicated Indophile having spent much of the past twenty years travelliing and living in India. A native of Australia, she earned a Ph.D. in Indian History from the Universityof Sydney and co-authored a biography of Molly Fink, a woman from her country who married the rajah of Pudukkottai in the early twentieth century. She also authored a controversial book on the Anglo-Indian community. Coralie has contributed many articles and papers on India to newspapers, magazines and academic forums and worked as a consultant on an art exhibition, ‘Dancing to the Flute’, at the Art Gallery of New south Wales. In recent years she taught at the American International School, Chennai.
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