maharani

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Photos of the Manik Bagh interiors are juxtaposed to pictures of the maharani holding court in their traditionally decorated official palace, the women all dressed in saris.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2019

The maharajah stopped buying after the maharani suddenly died in 1937 at age 22.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2019

"Paddy has always backed my racehorse Mack the Knife, and he's been complaining that he's always lost," the maharani went on, "so I decided to send him a birthday present from Mack."

From Time Magazine Archive

The party's venerable founder is Chakravatri Rajagopalachari, first native-born Governor General of India, who lyrically describes the maharani as "a combination of Sita, Lakshmi and the Rani of Jhansi."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then in the morning we had new cloths from Ammu as a back-present Rahel was a maharani and I was Little Nehru.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy