Nine Ideal Indian Women

Maharanee Sunity Devee, Nine Ideal Indian Women, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1919

pp. 215 including 10 tipped-in colour plates reproduced from paintings by S N Das with decorative borders along the edges and title mentioned at the bottom of each plate; later hard bound with gilt text at the spine along with five raised bands
10.4 x 8.8 x 0.9 in (26.5 x 22.5 x 2.5 cm)

Stories of the nine great women from Indian Mythologies written by Sunity Devee. The Ideal Women included in this book are Sati, Sunity, Shakuntala, Savitri, Shaibya, Sita, Promila, Damayanti, and Uttara.

Sunity Devee, the Maharani of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, India, was born in 1864, and she died in 1932. In addition to being an author, she was also an educator and women's rights activist.

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