Raj
"An 'historical novel that traces the life of an Indian princess from her birth during the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 until India wins its independence from the empire in the mid-twentieth century. Princess Jaya treads a path that leads from the ancient traditions of the maharajas -- in which the woman was subjugated to the man -- through the days in which India was held and exploited as a British possession; she becomes in the end a woman who has achieved her own independence and identity along with ehr country.'" Booklist