The Feast of Roses - The Sequel to The Twentieth Wife

Author: Indu SundaresanPublisher: PenguinYear: 2004Language: EnglishPages: 490ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143031538 DescriptionThe love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in The Twentieth Wife, continues in The Feast of Roses.Mehrunnisa, the first woman Jahangir marries for love, is now Empress Nur Jahan. He loves her so deeply that he eventually transfers his powers of sovereignty to her. But power and wealth do not come easily to Mehrunnisa-she has to fight for them. She has a formidable rival in the imperial harem, Empress Jagat Gosini, who has plotted against Mehrunnisa from early on. Beyond the harem walls, she battles powerful ministers who consider her a mere woman who cannot have a voice in the outside world.Mehrunnisa fits none of the established norms of womanhood in seventeenth-century India. She combats all her rivals by forming a junta of sorts with three men she can rely on-her father, her brother and Jahangir’s son Prince Khurram. She demonstrates great streng