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Author | : Ruby Lal |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-07-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393635406 |
Download Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in her parents’ mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson’s Taj Mahal. And she was both celebrated and reviled for her political acumen and diplomatic skill, which rivaled those of her female counterparts in Europe and beyond. In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. While other wives were secluded behind walls, Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, and governed in his stead as his health failed and his attentions wandered from matters of state. An astute politician and devoted partner, Nur led troops into battle to free Jahangir when he was imprisoned by one of his own officers. She signed and issued imperial orders, and coins of the realm bore her name. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire, even where scholars claim there are no sources. Nur’s confident assertion of authority and talent is revelatory. In Empress, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.
Author | : Ramya Sreenivasan |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0295997850 |
Download The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups, and mystical and monastic communities shaped their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini. Ramya Sreenivasan investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends. Using Padmini as a means of illustrating the power of gender norms in constructing heroic memory, she shows how such narratives about virtuous women changed as they circulated across particular communities in South Asia between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book will interest historians of memory, gender, community, culture, and historywriting in South Asia. Illustrating how enduring legends emerged out of particular precolonial repositories of "tradition," the book also addresses the nature of colonial transitions and precolonial historical consciousness.
Author | : Jan Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781643790510 |
Download The Lion Queens of India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"An introduction to the Asiatic lion and the "lion queens," or female forest rangers, of the Gir wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, India"--
Author | : Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew |
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Prostitution |
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Download The Queen's Daughters in India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Shubham Srivastava |
Publisher | : Shubham Srivastava |
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Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Queens of India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Queens of India is a collection of biographical essays of lesser known queens whose valor and bravery is either faded with the time or confined to specific area either which they belong to. Reader is sure to have a trip of glorious past which these queens brought to the motherland.
Author | : Lucy Moore |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2006-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101174838 |
Download Maharanis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Until the 1920s, to be a Maharani, wife to the Maharajah, was to be tantalizingly close to the power and glamour of the Raj, but locked away in purdah as near chattel. Even the educated, progressive Maharani of Baroda, Chimnabai—born into the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Mutiny—began her marriage this way, but her ravishing daughter, Indira, had other ideas. She became the Regent of Cooch Behar, one of the wealthiest regions of India while her daughter, Ayesha, was elected to the Indian Parliament. The lives of these influential women embodied the delicate interplay between rulers and ruled, race and culture, subservience and independence, Eastern and Western ideas, and ancient and modern ways of life in the bejeweled exuberance of Indian aristocratic life in the final days both of the Raj, and the British Empire. Tracing these larger than life characters as they bust every known stereotype, Lucy Moore creates a vivid picture of an emerging modern, democratic society in India and the tumultous period of Imperialism from which it arose. Through the sumptuous, adventurous lives of three generations of Indian queens—from the period following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to the present, Lucy Moore traces the cultural and political changes that transformed their world.
Author | : Sir Robert Howard |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781497933491 |
Download The Indian Queen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1700 Edition.
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Release | : 1665 |
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Download The Indian-Queen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Rafiq Zakaria |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Download Razia, Queen of India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michelle Moran |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476716374 |
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From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Cleopatra’s Daughter comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi—India’s Joan of Arc—who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom. When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms, each independent and wary of one another, seemingly no match for the might of the English. But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge. Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armies—one male and one female—and rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire determined to take away the land she loves. Told from the unexpected perspective of Sita—Queen Lakshmi’s most favored companion and most trusted soldier in the all-female army—Rebel Queen shines a light on a time and place rarely explored in historical fiction. In the tradition of her bestselling novel, Nefertiti, and through her strong, independent heroines fighting to make their way in a male dominated world, Michelle Moran brings nineteenth-century India to rich, vibrant life.