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(Some) Women of Indian Royalty

✫ Begum Nur Jahan ✫ Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi ✫ Rani Bharani Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi ✫ Noor Inayat Khan ✫ Mumtaz Mahal ✫ Maharani Bamba Muller Duleep Singh ✫ Maharani Jind Kaur ✫ Maharani Chimnabai and Indira of Baroda ✫ Chand Bibi

wives, warriors, mothers, beauties, queens, princesses, leaders.

this photoset includes women who were powerhouses, who encouraged social and economic reform, whose power and influence could not be contained, who fought in WWII to end Nazi tyranny, who made perfume, who addressed troops, who broke their own engagements, who mothered 14 children, who were considered “a Cinderella story”, who were a part of a matrilineal system of succession, who led rebellions. 

(Source: lady-stoneheart)