01025nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200210008810000150010924500080012426000390013230000290017136500120020052005330021265000270074565000300077270000170080220221222140959.0221222b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0749302631  cAL  aeng  223a820.33bMEHR  aGita Mehta  aRaj  aLondonbMandarian Paper Backc1990  aviii,462p.bPBc18x11cm.  2English  aJaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission, Jaya is ill-prepared to assume the role of Regent Maharani of Sirpur upon the death of her decadent, Westernized husband. But Jaya bravely fulfills her duty and soon finds herself thrust into the center of a roiling political battle in which the future of the kingdom is at stake... and her own future as well.  aIndian English Fiction  aIndian English Literature  aMEHTA (Gita)