A Noble Queen (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)

A Noble Queen (Vol. 1–3) is Meadows Taylor's expansive historical romance of the Deccan, centred on Chand Bibi, the formidable queen-regent whose courage and political intelligence shaped resistance to Mughal encroachment. Blending courtly intrigue, military episode, domestic feeling, and antiquarian detail, the novel belongs to the nineteenth-century historical romance yet is distinguished by its...