The Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India 9780755626144, 9780755632831

The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 9781501754869

The Tsar's Happy Occasion offers a sweeping, yet penetrating cultural history of the power of rituals and the ritua

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Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium 9781400843220, 2001093788, 1400843227

In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their co

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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India 9780748125333

This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the Brit

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The British in India: A social history of the RAJ 9780374713249, 9780374116859

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Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History 9780520941519

Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view

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Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495-1745 150175484X, 9781501754845

The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were c

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Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium 9780141911366, 9780691095004

Byzantium was one of the greatest civilisations the world has ever seen. Judith Herrin tells its extraordinary story afr

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Beyond the Veil - Indian Women in the Raj

PQR

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Women of India 9781613161043

"Women of India" by Otto Rothfield is a book about Indian women, their social life, and customs. Excerpt: &quo

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Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century [New Ed]

The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism a

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