An unputdownablc 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 my

Kate Shackleton is called upon to investigate the murder of Maharajah Narayan.

Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the ze

In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century t