Princess Remembers by Gayatri Devi
She is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace and shot her first panther at the age of twelve. She became one of the first women to win a seat in the Indian Parliament John F. Kennedy once introduced her as ?the woman with the most staggering majority that anyone has ever earned in an election.? She was also considered one of the world's most beautiful women.In this compelling memoir Gayatri Devi describes her carefree hoyden childhood with her brothers and sisters in the palace of Cooch Behar and their adventurous trips to London and the continent her secret six-year courtship with the dashing internationally renowned polo player Jai the Maharaja of Jaipur her marriage and entry into the glittering life of the 'pink city' of Jaipur and her struggles to adapt to unfamiliar customs and her husband's two other wives.A Princess Remembers is the fascinating life story of one of India's most elegant women and one of its most powerful.
Devi, Gayatri: - Gayatri Devi, MD, is the director of the New York Memory and Healthy Aging Services and an attending physician at Lenox Hill Hospital. She is a board certified neurologist, with additional board certifications in pain medicine, psychiatry, and behavioral neurology, and she served on the faculty of New York University's School of Medicine as clinical associate professor of neurology and psychiatry until 2015. She is the author of over fifty publications in peer-reviewed journals on the topic of memory loss, as well as the books Estrogen, Memory and Menopause, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Alzheimer's Disease, and A Calm Brain. She lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9788171673070 |
| ISBN 10 | 8171673074 |
| Title | Princess Remembers |
| Author | Gayatri Devi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Suryaprabha Prakashan |
| Year published | 1998-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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