Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India

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Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana - the female quarters of the Indic home or palace - this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

'this book is a welcome and lively analysis of how women associated with the princely states have shaped, experienced, and projected to broader audiences in India and abroad the material culture of the princely states in colonial and postcolonial eras.' American Historical Review 'Jhala gives us a complex picture of the lives, material conditions, and representations of court women, fascinating in itself and invaluable to anyone plotting a novel or film to be set in the so-called native states.' Victorian Studies