Gayatri Devi

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Gayatri Devi (born May 23, 1919 in London , † July 29, 2009 in Jaipur , Rajasthan ) was Maharani of Jaipur .

Gayatri Devi, before 1929
Gayatri Devi photographed by Sir Cecil Beaton

Her parents were Maharaja Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar and Maharani Indira Raje, daughter of the Maharajas of Baroda . Gayatri's father died when she was three years old.

She married the Maharaja of Jaipur, Man Singh II. On May 9, 1940 and became his third wife. Gayatri was one of the most beautiful women in the world in her day; In her youth, the fashion magazine Vogue named her one of the ten most beautiful women in the world. After the dissolution of the princely state , she was elected as a member of the Swatantra Party in the Indian parliament of the third, fourth and fifth Lok Sabha . She was the author of the books A Princess Remembers and A Government's Gateway .

Fonts (in selection)

  • NG Ranga . Gayatri Devi: The Congress path to national disaster . - Bombay: Krishnan around 1965
  • A princess remembers. The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur . (With the assistance of Santha Rama Rau , 1923–2009). - Philadelphia. New York: Lippincott 1976.
  • Une Princesse se souvient . Paris: Laffont 1979
  • (With co-author Santha Rama Rau :) A princess remembers. The memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur . 1st Indian edition. - New Delhi: Tarang 1984
  • The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur. Memories of a princess . From the Engl. by Veronika Obst. With e. Introduction by Dietmar Storch. - New Delhi: Prakash 2006 (reprinted 2016).
  • Memories of a princess. The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur . From the Engl. by Veronika Obst. - Heidelberg: Draupadi 2014

biography

  • Dharmendar Kanwar: Rajmata Gayatri Devi ... Enduring Grace. - New Delhi: Luster Press / Roli Books 2004
  • Dharmedar Kanwar: The last queen of Jaipur. The Legendary Life of Maharani Gayatri Devi . - Vercelli: White Star 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/5934077/Rajmata-Gayatri-Devi.html

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personal data
SURNAME Gayatri Devi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian ruler's wife; Maharani of Jaipur
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2009
Place of death Jaipur