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Angma Dey Jhala
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India [PDF ebook]

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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.

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Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781851960743 ● Publisher Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2818248 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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