Download or read book Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India written by Angma Dey Jhala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.