Coralie Younger is a dedicated Indophile having spent a large part of her life travelling and living in India. A native of Australia, she earned a PhD in Indian history from the University of Sydney and co-authored a biography of Molly Fink, a woman from her country who married an Indian maharajah in the early twentieth century
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4285em; color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-family: roboto, san-serif; font-size: 14px;">An unputdownable factual account of the zenana world of the rajas and sultans of India, concentrating on the firangi bahus and begums of this veiled world of myths and folklores. Indias reputation as a rich marriage mart for European women continued right up until the demise of the British Raj in 1947. During Indias cold weather season, women would sail out from England to India to plunder its plentiful storehouse of bachelors regardless of the dangers of the tropical climate and a culture that bore no resemblance to the one they had known at home. This book gives us the stories of twenty different European women who broke societys rules to marry the heathen Indian princes. Who were these women? Were they gold-diggers, or hopeless romantics hoping to enact their own Cinderella fairy tale? Did they live happily ever after? Set against the backdrop of Indias independence struggle, Wicked Women of the Raj has a delicious and potent mix of flavours -- the end of the British Raj and the downfall of the pompous and extravagant Indian aristocracy</p><div><br></div>
