Jhala, Angma Dey

Courtly Indian women in late imperial India / Angma Dey Jhala - India Routledge Publications 2018 - 244 p.

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 zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.

9781138895263


Women in politics - India - History
India - Court and courtiers - History - 20th century
India - Politics and government - 20th Century

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