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