Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Palace Politics: Zenana Life in the Late Colonial Princely State, c. 1890–1947
- 2 Reading the Role of Women in Succession Disputes: Kenneth Fitze's A Review of Modern Practice in Regard to Successions in Indian States
- 3 A Discourse on Desire: The Politics of Marriage Alliance in the Hindu Zenana
- 4 Breaking (Male) Hearts: The Role of Love, Colonial Law and Maternal Authority in Two Disputed Royal Marriages in Early Twentieth-Century Kathiawar
- 5 Troubles in Indore, the Maharaja's Women: Loving Dangerously
- 6 From ‘Pardah to Parliament’: Dynastic Politics and the Role of Royal Women in Postcolonial India
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Palace Politics: Zenana Life in the Late Colonial Princely State, c. 1890–1947
- 2 Reading the Role of Women in Succession Disputes: Kenneth Fitze's A Review of Modern Practice in Regard to Successions in Indian States
- 3 A Discourse on Desire: The Politics of Marriage Alliance in the Hindu Zenana
- 4 Breaking (Male) Hearts: The Role of Love, Colonial Law and Maternal Authority in Two Disputed Royal Marriages in Early Twentieth-Century Kathiawar
- 5 Troubles in Indore, the Maharaja's Women: Loving Dangerously
- 6 From ‘Pardah to Parliament’: Dynastic Politics and the Role of Royal Women in Postcolonial India
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India , pp. 223 - 234Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014