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abortion, 166, 167, 169

Abul Fazl, 89, 93
Ackerley, J. R., 143, 149, 177
Aga Khan II, 58
Agra, 39, 43, 120, 123, 124, 135
Ain-i-Akbari, 89, 93
Akbar, 2, 38, 39, 40, 41, 56, 70, 89, 102, 110,
111, 112, 113, 118, 119, 120, 121
film of, 70, 102, 112, 118, 119, 120, 121
marriage of, 2, 102, 111, 112, 118, 119,
120
Alam Ara, 104
Ali, Muzaffar, 116, 117, 118
see also Umrao Jaan (1981)
Alix, Charlotte, 19
Amrohi, Kamal, 102, 114
see also Pakeezah
angarkhas, 57, 106, 168
Angkor Wat, 151
Anglo-European cinematic portraits of the
zenana, 130, 13169, 176, 177
and architecture, 131, 151, 154, 155,
156, 157, 167, 168
and clothing, 131, 146, 161, 162, 167,
168
and depictions of the Europeanized body,
161, 162
and depictions of the Indian body, 161,
162
and interior design, 146
and jewellery, 131, 151, 161, 167, 168
and material culture of the zenana, 131,
133, 134, 143, 154, 1679, 1748
and music, 131, 150 , 151, 155
and paintings in, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157

and portraits of the pardah princess, 130,

143, 14450, 152, 153, 154, 158,
159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 177
antahpura, 2
Appadurai, Arjun 11, 88
architecture, 2, 4, 8, 17, 18, 19, 36, 70, 72,
104, 107, 114, 120, 125, 126, 128, 131,
137, 138, 143, 147, 148, 151, 154, 155,
156, 157, 160, 174, 177
Art Deco, 18, 19, 125, 126, 147, 148,
151, 154, 156, 160
Machinist, 18, 19, 43
arsi, 62
Art Deco, 4, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 43, 122, 125,
126, 147, 148, 151, 154, 156, 160
architecture, 18, 19, 125, 126, 147, 148,
151, 154, 156, 160
decorative objects, 25, 58
jewellery, 4, 21, 22, 43, 122
Art Nouveau, 4, 43, 113, 122
Arthasastra, 36, 40, 107
Ashoka, 102
Asirgarh, 39
Atharva Veda, 51
attar, 16, 174
auction houses, 47
Aurangzeb, 41, 45, 112, 160
Autobiography of a Princess, 5, 132, 133,
14453, 158, 160, 173, 177
historical zenana women behind, 1589
the making of, 1513
Awadh, 4, 14, 43, 69, 79, 108, 110, 175

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bala, 62
Barbosa, Duarte, 38

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Baria, 23, 47
Maharani of, 23, 47
Baroda, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 32, 42, 43, 55,
73, 74, 76, 79, 81, 94, 95, 123, 124, 147,
173, 175
Maharani Chimnabai II of, 19, 20, 76,
79, 81
purchase of jewellery, 20
cuisine of, 94, 175
Maharani Indira Devi of, 19, 24, 25, 42,
74, 76, 146
see also Cooch Behar and Baroda
Maharaja Khanderao Gaekwad of, 43
Maharaja Sayajirao III of, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 42, 79, 123, 173, 175
purchase of property in England, 18
purchase of property in France, 19
Maharani Sita Devi of, 20, 21, 173
Pearl Carpet of, 43
Barua, P. C., 104
bazubands, 22, 62
beauty, 6, 44, 45
Benares, 43, 57, 94, 124
Bernier, Francois, 39
Bharatiya Janata Party, 87, 159
Bhopal, 3, 24, 27, 73, 82, 107
Begum Sultan Jahan of, 24, 73, 82
and European dress, 24
cuisine of, 27, 82
hybridity within, 73
Bikaner, 55, 83, 94, 121, 124, 133, 147, 172
Maharaja Ganga Singh of, 55
Maharaja Sardul Singh of, 55
Bird, Isabella, 142
bor, 62, 63
Bose, Sadhana, 101
Boucheron, 4, 19, 21, 42, 47
Brahmo Samaj, 1, 73, 78
Brancusi, Constantin, 18
British architects, 18, 151
British monarchy, 2, 8, 15, 16, 42, 43, 95,
123, 124, 145, 173
British royals, 42, 95, 123, 124
British Museum, 154, 156, 176
Bruhns, Ivan da Silva, 18
Buddhism, 69, 78
Burma, 15, 77, 78, 81, 151

Callot Soeurs, 24
Cartier, 4, 19, 20, 21, 22, 42, 43, 47, 122,
173
cashmere, 53, 56, 57, 106, 108
Chakma Raj, 27, 73, 74, 77, 78, 175
cuisine in, 73, 74, 78, 85
European cuisine in, 85
Raja Nalinaksha Roy of, 73
Rani Benita Roy of, 73, 74, 77, 78, 81,
85
chandar har, 62
Charlotte, Queen, 42, 43
Chattopadhyay, Sarat Chandra, 104
Chaumet, 4, 19, 42, 43, 47, 173
Chisholm, Robert Fellows, 18
Chittagong Hill Tracts, 73
Chittor, 124
Chopra, Vidhu Vinod, 120
Chota Udaipur, 80, 81
cuisine in, 80, 81
Jairaj Kunverba of, 80, 81
Chowdhry, Prem, 143
Christies, 47, 156
Christmas, 4, 11, 15, 27, 69, 74, 78, 84, 85
Chughtai, Abdur Rahman, 103, 112
chutila, 62
Clive, Lord Robert, 40
cloth, 56, 58
clothing, 1, 4, 11, 14, 24, 25, 33, 39, 53, 56,
57, 58, 61, 62, 146, 154, 155, 161, 168,
171, 172, 175
wearing European clothing, 24, 57, 58,
72
coins, 27, 30, 32, 33, 36, 41, 54, 60, 61
colonial literature on the zenana, 1403
Concord of the Princes, 86
Congress Party, 86, 87, 112, 148
Cooch Behar, 4, 17, 19, 24, 73, 74, 76, 78,
81, 82, 95
cuisine in, 73, 74, 76, 78, 81
Indira Devi of, 4, 24, 74, 81
use of chiffon for saris, 245
Maharani Sunity Devi of, 1, 2, 4, 16, 24
Cook, Thomas, 123
cookbooks, 76, 8697, 98, 175
from antiquity, 889
from the colonial period, 89, 90
during the emergency, 914

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historiography of, 8891
postcolonial, 907, 98, 175
post-liberalization (1990s), 957
by zenana authors, 76, 8697, 175
Cooke & Kelvey, 59
Cooking of the Maharajas, 74, 79, 88, 91, 92,
93, 94, 118
courtesan, 4, 28, 44, 46, 75, 101, 10218,
150, 151, 176, 177
during antiquity, 106, 107
colonial images of the, 109, 110
in Dhrangadhra, 107, 108
depictions in film, 28, 101, 102, 10418,
129, 130, 176, 177
history of, 106
and jewellery, 44, 107, 108
in Lucknow, 108, 177
and Indo-Islamic culture, 28, 101, 102,
107, 108, 111, 112, 130
and music, 104, 108, 109, 110, 114, 116,
117, 129, 176
postcolonial views of the, 110
Sanskrit references to, 106, 107
and Urdu literature, 109, 117
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 122
Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, 14, 171
cuisine, 4, 6, 8, 6999, 175
as aphrodisiac, 75
Anglo-Indian, 4, 69, 89, 90, 92, 175
during antiquity, 69, 70, 88, 89
Awadhi, 4, 69, 79
Bengali, 73, 74, 78, 81, 90
during the colonial period, 89, 90, 175
European, 806, 98, 175
French, 4, 74, 79, 80, 89, 175
hybrid forms of, 78, 98, 175
Italian, 81, 82, 89
during the medieval period, 70, 71, 89
Mughlai, 4, 70, 71
Nepali, 4, 73, 74, 79, 175
development of pan-Indian, 76
as poison, 75
Portuguese, 74, 81
and religion, 74, 97
zenana women as patrons of, 4, 6, 8,
6699
Curse of the Golden Flower (dir. Zhang
Yimou, 2006), 122

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Dalrymple, William, 8, 172

darshan, 12, 37
Delhi Darbars, 9, 15, 173
Devdas, 104
Devigarh, 102, 127, 128, 129
Dewas Senior, 47, 71, 140
Dholpur, 23, 26, 27, 2935, 43, 4668, 159,
175
Maharani Ripudaman Kaur of, 23, 27,
29, 31, 4668, 175
and her collection of valuables, 27, 33,
47, 48, 5363, 175
and cosmopolitan collecting, 536,
63, 174, 175
and intervention of her brother,
Maharaja of Nabha, 638
and her jewellery, 613, 68
and status as a widow, 65, 67
and stridhana, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 61,
65, 67
and Vicereine, Lady Hardinge, 67
Maharaj Rana Ram Singh, 29, 30, 49, 53,
58, 64, 65, 67
Maharaj Rana Udai Bhan Singh of, 29,
31, 51, 64, 65, 66, 67
Dhrangadhra, 14, 15, 46, 47, 52, 81, 87, 107,
151, 152
Maharani Brijraj Kumari of, 1415, 52,
53, 63
Maharaja Meghrajji III of, 46, 47
daughter of Maharaja Ranmalsinghji of,
52
Djo-Bourgeois, Georges, 18
Duberly, Frances, 142
Durkheim, 11
Dwyer, Rachel, 5, 111, 114, 117

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East is East, 116

East India Company, 4, 8, 10, 41, 116, 157,
162, 171, 173
Eklavya, 5, 101, 102, 120, 121
and fashion in, 120, 121
Elias, Norbert, 12
Euro-American cinema 3, 5, 6, 28, 130,
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Ferragamo, Salvatore, 24
Forster, E. M., 8, 71, 92, 132, 140, 141, 143,
149, 161, 169, 177
gaghras, 61, 62, 101, 121
Gandhi, Indira see Indian Princes
Gandhi, Sanjay, 152
ganga-jamini, 43, 58
Ganguly, Dhiren 104
Gauripur, Raja of, 104
Gell, Alfred, 37
gems, 19, 20, 22, 30, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,
43, 46, 47, 52, 62, 65, 97, 121, 132, 160,
167
George II, King, 42
George, King, and Queen Mary, 173
Ghazal, 102, 104, 106, 117
Ghosh, Durba, 7
ghulab pash, 58, 59
glass, 59
Gowariker, Ashutosh, 70, 102, 119
see also Jodhaa Akbar
Great Depression, 42
Gulbadan Begum, 119
Gwalior, 8, 16, 17, 19, 39, 41, 42, 55, 64, 73,
79, 83, 84, 85, 87, 93, 94, 124, 147, 159,
172, 175, 176
cooks in, 79
dinner at palace in, 84
food in, 73, 79, 83, 84
Nepali food in, 79
Maharaja of, 83
Maharani of, 16
Maharaja Jayaji Rao Scindia, 17, 41
Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia of, 19, 42
Princess Vasundaraje of, 159
Maharani Vijaya Raje Scinda, 73, 79,
82, 87

Hindi cinema, 3, 5, 6, 27, 28, 98, 99,

10130, 176
and its use of colour, 118
current state of, 105
early history of, 103
and fashion, 101, 102, 117, 118, 120,
121, 130
and jewellery, 101, 117, 118, 121, 122, 130
and the royal drama/historical, 101,
11822
and the image of the tawaif, 101, 102,
105, 10618, 129, 130, 176, 177
its reception by diasporic audiences, 116
and tourism, 101, 118, 12230
and zenana aesthetics in, 10306, 130
hookahs, 55, 59, 108, 117, 168
Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnies Pictures, 5, 132, 133, 151, 15360, 167, 177
historic members of royal families upon
whom the stories were based, 154,
158, 159
paintings in, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158
Hurley, Elizabeth, 126
Hyderabad, 8, 13, 22, 23, 27, 55, 82, 83, 94,
104, 133, 160, 164, 167, 168, 177
Azam Jah, 22
marriages of, 22
cuisine of, 27, 82, 83, 94
Princess Durreshwar of, 23
jewellery of, 23
Mir Osman Ali Khan of, 133, 160
marriages of Turkish Caliphs daughters
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Halvad, 34
Raja Rajodharji of, 34
Hamilton & Co., 41, 43, 55, 59
hath phul, 62
Heat and Dust, 5, 131, 132, 133, 136, 149,
1609
Henry Poole & Co., 58
Hero, 122

Imperial Order of the Crown of India, 1, 16

Indian Princes, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15,
1722, 24, 25, 28, 32, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46,
37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 53, 54, 5599, 105,
114, 117, 132, 133, 1404, 148, 155,
157, 157, 174, 177
British perceptions of, 171
relationships with the British, 89, 71 72,
78, 806, 1403, 157, 171
adoption of Western social practices
by, 9, 54, 55
eating, dressing and dining, 9, 14, 54,
55, 57, 58, 806
Western education of, 72, 163

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and the Emergency, 6, 88, 91, 132, 133,
144, 159
Gifting of honours and medals to, 9
historiography of, 8
and Indira Gandhi, 6, 86, 87, 117, 132,
144, 148, 159
patronage by, 9, 1213, 20, 36, 37, 39,
40,41, 42, 43, 53, 54, 5563, 68,
88, 89, 95, 117, 132, 133, 157, 174
of cloth/clothing, 56, 57, 58
of cuisine, 6999, 175
of foreign-made goods, 13, 1415, 17,
18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 32,
40, 41, 42, 44, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59,
72, 74, 806
American, 24, 32, 54
Austrian, 15
British, 17, 18, 19, 24, 32, 78,
806
Chinese, 15
French, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32,
77, 79
German, 18
Polish, 18, 19
Perugian, 15
Venetian, 15, 18
of hybrid products, 55, 56, 78, 98
of indigenous artisans, 43
during the postcolonial period, 5, 6,
117, 132, 133
and the Privy Purse, 6, 86, 87, 91, 96,
105, 114, 117, 144, 155, 158, 177
sport of, 147
tourism and, 1235
Indore, 18, 19, 25, 42, 46, 58, 72, 74, 81, 88,
91, 92, 93, 94, 102, 104, 107, 123, 163,
173
Ahilyabai Holkar of, 102
Sally Shalini Holkar of, 74, 88, 91, 92,
93, 94, 95, 118
as cookbook writer, 914
Maharani Sanyogita Raje of, 18, 25
Shivaji, Richard Holkar of, 74, 88, 91,
95, 102, 118
Maharaja Tukoji Rao Holkar of, 25, 42,
46, 72, 104
Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar of, 18,
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Industrial Revolution, 11
interior dcor, 15, 17, 18, 19
Ivory, James, 5, 27, 28, 131, 132, 133, 134,
136, 137, 138, 140, 144, 145, 149, 150,
151, 152, 153, 154
childhood in America, 137
early career of, 138
meeting with Ismail Merchant, 136, 137
meeting with Ruth Prawar Jhabvala, 140
Jaffrey, Madhur, 90, 91, 131, 146, 151, 161
Jahangir, 38, 39, 111, 172
Jaipur, 10, 20, 21, 40, 43, 70, 73, 74, 77, 79,
81, 82, 85, 87, 88, 947, 102, 104, 110,
118, 1218, 130, 133, 1447, 154, 158,
159, 173, 175, 176
hybrid cuisine in, 73, 79, 81, 85, 86, 96,
97
Jackie Kennedys visit to, 125
Maharani Gayatri Devi of, 73, 74, 76, 77,
79, 81, 82, 87, 95, 97, 124, 144, 146,
148, 154, 158, 159
see also Cooch Behar
Maharajkumar Jagat Singh of, 144
Maharaja Madho Singh of, 124, 173
Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of, 73, 82,
95, 124, 125, 146, 159
tourism in, 122, 124, 125, 127
Jaipuri jewellers, 20, 40, 43, 121, 122,
130
Jaisalmer, 145, 150
jamdarkhana, 32, 52, 53
Jamnagar, 80, 81, 87
Mahendra Kunverba of, 80, 81
Jaora, Nawab of, 85
Jasanoff, Maya, 7, 10, 41
Jean Patou, 24
jewellery, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 1926, 2968, 99,
101, 104, 106, 107, 115, 117, 118, 121,
122, 124, 125, 130, 131, 132, 142, 151,
171, 175, 178
in antiquity, 35, 36
in Bollywood film, 101, 117, 118, 121,
122
concealment of, 23, 24
of Dholpur, 305, 4668, 175
European, 4, 19, 20, 21, 22, 32, 42, 44,
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Hybrid, 20, 21, 32, 33, 43, 44

Hyderabadi, 23
Jaipuri, 21, 43, 121, 122, 130, 175
and its role in Indian kingship, 35, 43,
44, 68
in the medieval period, 37, 38
during the Mohenjo Daro era, 35
and the Mughals, 38, 39, 41, 45
of the Nabobinas, 8
Persian, 20, 21
and Rajputs, 38, 40
selling of jewellery and colonial influence, 47
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawar, 27, 28, 133, 134, 138,
139, 1405, 152, 153, 160, 162, 164, 165
childhood in England, 139
childhood in Germany, 138
arrival in India, 139
publishing career, 139, 140
meeting with Merchant and Ivory, 138,
140
and orientalized depictions of the zenana,
130, 134, 143, 144, 152, 153, 154,
158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 166,
169, 177
Jhala, Jayasinhji, 37
jhumke, 62
Jigha, 21, 39
Jodhaa Akbar, 5, 70, 101, 102, 106, 112, 113,
118, 119, 120, 121, 176
fashion in, 120
historical accuracy of, 119, 120
Jodhpur, 14, 18, 34, 47, 85, 94, 105, 120,
121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129,
132, 133, 144, 145, 147, 148, 151, 152,
153, 154, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 167,
173, 176, 177
Princess Brijraj Kumari of, 1415, 63
see also Dhrangadhra
Princess Chandresh Kumari of, 154, 159
Dhananjeya Singh of, 127
Maharaja Gaj Singh II of, 127, 132, 144,
145, 148, 154, 156, 157, 158
Maharaja Hanwant Singh of, 47, 105,
152
Zubeidaa, mistress of, 152
Maharani Hemlata Raje of, 152
Hukum Singh, Tutu, of, 152

Elizabeth Hurleys marriage in, 126

Maharani Krishna Kumari of, 34, 152
Nikhilendra Singh of, 127, 128
and tourism, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127
Maharaja Umaid Singh of, 18, 85, 147
kalgi, 13, 39, 42, 44
Kamasutra, 2, 106
Kapurthala, 19, 21, 24, 42, 63, 73, 74, 77,
78, 81, 122, 163, 173, 175
Maharani Anita del Gado of, 81
Maharani Brinda of, 19, 63
cuisine in, 74, 77, 81
Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of, 42, 73, 74,
77, 173
Rani Sita Devi of, 24, 74, 77
Kashmir, 32, 33, 43, 55, 56, 57, 58, 70, 94
Kashmiri shawls, 33, 57
Kennedy, Jackie, 125
Kew Gardens, 18
Khan, Saif Ali, 102
see also Pataudi
khaur, 62
khilat, 12, 15, 16, 56
Kipling, Rudyard, 8, 71
Kishengarh, 94
Kolhapur, 42, 72
Raja Rajaram of, 42
Maharaja Shivaji IV of, 72
Kopytoff, Igor 11
kotha, 10710, 11517, 129, 176
Kumari, Meena, 101, 110, 114, 116
kundan, 39, 40, 41, 43, 122

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laccha, 62
Lahore, 39, 77, 102, 110, 113, 120, 173, 176
Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan, 3
Lanchester, Henry, 8, 151
Laws of Manu, 51, 52
Lobb, John & Co., 58
Louis XIV of France, 12
Lucknow, 13, 41, 102, 10610, 114, 116,
117, 130, 133, 177
Nawab Asaf ud-Daula of, 41
Nawab Wajid Ali-Shah of, 108
Lumiere brothers, 103

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Macaulays Minute on Education (1835), 54
Machinist, 18, 19, 43
Madhubala, 111, 112
Mahabharata, 44, 147
beauty in, 44
Maheshwar, 91, 102, 123
see also Indore, Shivaji, Richard Holkar;
Indore, Sally, Shalini Holkar
Malabar Hill Murder (1925), 104, 105
Malinowski, 11
Mant, Major Charles, 18
Marathas, 40
Mary, Queen, and King George, 173
Mauboussin, 42
Mayurbhanj, 78
Mehrangarh Fort, 127, 128, 129, 154, 177
memsahib, 8, 89, 90
Merchant Ivory Productions, 5, 6, 27,
1318, 140, 142, 1446, 1503, 156,
157, 159, 1609, 173, 177
Merchant, Ismail, 5, 28, 132, 133, 134, 135,
136, 137, 140, 145, 152, 168
childhood in Bombay, 135
meeting with James Ivory, 136, 137
meeting with Ruth Prawar Jhabvala, 140
see also Merchant Ivory Productions
metalwork, 58
minakdari, 40, 43
mixed race relationships/miscegenation, 91,
162, 163, 177
modha, 63
Mughal-e-Azam, 5, 102, 105, 111, 112, 113,
114, 118, 119, 120, 176
inaccuracies in, 112
Mughals, 24, 12, 13, 1518, 32, 33, 38, 39,
40, 41, 45, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 6971, 79,
89, 93, 95, 1013, 1058, 11114, 118,
119, 1214, 126, 128, 130, 133, 147,
157, 160, 162, 172, 176, 177
and food, 70, 71
and jewellery, 38, 39, 40, 45
and marriages with Hindu Rajputs, 70
and relationships with Rajputs over
patronage, 39, 40
mulligatawny soup, 4, 69, 85
Murshidabad, 40
Mutiny of 1857, 8, 72, 108, 116, 162, 174
Muthesius, Eckart, 18

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Mysore, 10, 16, 55, 84, 94, 126

Mysore, Maharani of, 16
Nabha, 27, 29, 31, 34, 46, 48, 60, 63, 64, 65,
67, 68
Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of, 29, 31,
34, 63, 64, 65, 67
Nabobs/Nabobinas, 8
Nadir Shah, 40, 41, 108
naths, 8, 22, 45, 62, 63, 101
Nawanagar, 42
Maharaja Ranjitsingh of, 42
nazar, 12, 15
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 86, 112
New York Stock Exchange crash (1929), 42
Nur Jahan, 2
Oldenburg, Veena, 108, 109
oodhanis, 70, 101, 106, 121
Orientalism, 7
Orr, P. & Sons, 41
Osler, F. & C., 55, 59, 173

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paan, 16, 53, 58, 59, 81, 106, 117, 131, 161,
168, 174
paan dans, 53, 58, 59, 117
Padadayatji, 107
Pakeezah, 5, 101, 102, 106, 110, 114, 115,
116, 117, 176
Palace architecture, 4, 8, 17
of Baroda, 17, 18
of Cooch Behar, 17
of Maharaja Jayajirao Scindia of Gwalior,
17, 41, 79
Laxmi Vilas palace (Baroda), 17
Palace on Wheels, 126
Palanpur, 94
pardah, 26, 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 34, 39,
47, 50, 71, 72, 77, 80, 84, 1305, 137,
139, 140, 141, 143, 144, 149, 152, 153,
158, 159, 161, 163, 169, 1735, 177, 178
Parks, Fanny, Wanderings of a Pilgrim, 141,
142
Patel, Vallabhai, 86
Partition, 86, 110, 113, 130, 135
pashmina, 57
Paswanji, 107
Pataudi, 101, 102

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Patiala, 8, 19, 21, 42, 55, 64, 87, 94, 102,

114, 173
Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of, 21, 22, 42,
64, 173
pativrata, 45, 74
peshkash, 15
Plassey, the Battle of, 40
Poison, 75, 134, 140, 164, 169
Pudukkottai, 24, 173
Maharani Molly Fink of, 24, 173
Punjab, 55, 64, 74, 77, 81, 114, 173
punkah, 55, 145

chanderi saris, 33, 43, 53, 57, 61, 172

use of chiffon for, 24, 25
sarpeche, 13, 22, 39, 44, 61, 66, 171
Saurashtra, 3, 107
Scott, Paul, 8, 143
Sen, Keshub Chandra, 1, 73, 77
Shakespeare Wallah, 132, 133, 136
Shah Jahan, 39, 40
sherwani, 57, 168
Silk Road, 6970
Simpson, Mrs Wallis, Duchess of Windsor,
21, 24
Singh,
Hanut, 122
Rai, Aishwarya, 101, 110, 121
Singh,
Manju
Shivraj, 85, 88, 94, 95, 96, 97
railway curry, 76, 77
sirha, 13
Raj Nartaki, 5, 101, 110
Smithsonian Museum, 154, 156
rajadharma, 36, 37
Sognot, Louis, 19
Raja Harischandra, 103
Sothebys, 47, 156
Rajpramukhs, 87, 111, 125
Rajputana/Rajasthan, 3, 4, 31, 50, 63, 70, 75, Spivak, Gayatri, 142, 143
87, 95, 98, 1013, 105, 118, 119, 1218, Sri Lanka, 151
130, 133, 135, 1446, 148, 1502, 155,
Strauss, Levi, 11
159, 160, 172
Stridhana, 22, 23, 27, 29, 31, 32, 4653, 61,
Ramayana, 44, 45
65, 67, 175
beauty in, 44, 45
and colonial law, 52
Rampur, 8, 81, 105, 107
examples of, 52
cuisine in, 81
subaltern studies, 7
Nawab Hamid Ali Khan of, 81
Suez Canal, 8, 11, 123
Princess Mehrunissa of, 81
surahi, 55
Ranthambore, 39, 128
Swatantra, 87, 159
Rathore, Raghuvendra, 102, 120
see also Jodhpur
table and bed linens, 58
Ray, Satyajit, 136, 137, 154
Tagore, Sharmila 101, 102
Recognition of Shakuntala, The, 37, 45
see also Pataudi
beauty in, 45
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1, 78
Rekha, 101, 110, 117
Taj, Imtiaz Ali, 11214
Religious fasting (vrata), 74, 77, 97
Tanjore, Maharaja Serfoji II of, 13, 54
Royal Indian Cookery, 88, 947
Tawaif, 28, 101, 102, 10518, 121, 129,
Rushdie, Salman, 7, 120, 181
130, 133, 176, 177
Ruswa, Mirza Hadi 107, 116
textiles, 39, 56
see also Umrao Jaan
tikka, 62
toshakhana, 29, 32, 33, 48, 51, 52, 53
Said, Edward, 7
tourism, 5, 28, 87, 95, 99, 101, 103, 106,
satlari, 62
118, 12231, 157, 159, 176
sarband, 13
history of tourism in princely India, 1235
saris, 1, 4, 11, 14, 20, 24, 25, 33, 53, 57, 61,
62, 82, 146, 154, 155, 161, 168, 171, 172 Tragada Bhavai, 104
Travancore-Cochin, 14, 87, 94
benaresi saris, 33, 43, 57

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Udaipur/Mewar, 34, 39, 55, 80, 81, 94,102,
121, 1239, 133, 156, 173, 176
Arvind Singh of, 125
and Lake Pichola Palace, 125
Maharani of, 55
Padmaja Kumari of, 125, 126
tourism in, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129,
176
Maharana Udai Singh of, 34
Umaid Bhavan Palace, 18, 125, 126, 145,
147, 1517, 160, 176
design of, 151
Umrao Jaan (1981), 5, 101, 102, 106, 110,
116, 117
Umrao Jaan (2006), 5, 118
Uprajpramukhs, 87, 111
Van Cleef & Arpels, 4, 21, 122, 173
Varthema, Ludovica de, 38
Verma, Raja Ravi, 103
Victoria, Queen, 2, 8, 15, 16, 43, 145, 173
declared Empress of India, 15, 16
and patronage of Indian jewellery, 43
Victoria and Albert Museum, 28, 120, 153,
156, 170, 171, 173, 176
Vijanagar, 38
vrata, 74, 77, 97

zardari, 43
zenana, 3, 57, 9, 17, 19, 205, 279, 314,
449, 516, 5963, 65, 6799, 109, 110,
101 69, 1738
beauty in, 44, 45
consumption patterns of, 6, 9, 17, 19,
20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 46, 535, 5963,
6999, 1738
cuisine within, 6999, 175
European influences on zenana cuisine, 74, 78, 806, 175
zenana women as culinary patrons,
6699, 175
effect on tourism, 12230
encounter with the West, 6, 9, 17, 19,
202, 24, 25, 28, 535, 74, 806,
109, 110
in Euro-American film, 3, 5, 6, 28,
13069, 176, 177
European depictions of, 45, 67, 109,
13169
in Hindi film, 3, 5, 6, 27, 28, 98, 99,
10130, 176
hybrid aesthetic within the, 20, 21, 24,
25, 28, 33, 53, 546, 74, 78, 806,
132, 174, 175
and jewellery, 447, 613, 68, 142
and womens maintenance of jewellery, 33, 34, 46, 513, 68
patterns of marriage within, 72, 73, 175
and stridhana, 22, 23, 27, 29, 31, 32, 46,
47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 61, 65, 67, 175
Zoffany, 161
Zubeida, 5, 102, 105, 106

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Wankaner, Maharani of, 63
Willingdon Club, 82
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