“She turned her attention from Maharani Putlabai to Mirabai. Why was the younger queen on a chair and not a cushion? Perhaps it was a statement of her middling position – that she was not high enough for the zenana throne, but she was respected enough not to be somewhat elevated.”

“She turned her attention from Maharani Putlabai to Mirabai. Why was the younger queen on a chair and not a cushion? Perhaps it was a statement of her middling position – that she was not high enough for the zenana throne, but she was respected enough not to be somewhat elevated.”

— Sujata Massey