An unputdownable factual account of the zenana world of the raja and sultans of India, concentrating on the firangi bahus and begums of this veiled world of myths and folklores. The book gives us the stories of many different European women who broke society's rules to marry the heathen Indian princes. Who were these women? Were they gold diggers or hopeless romantics hoping to enact their own Cinderella fairytale? Did they live happily ever after?