Marriage alliances in imperial space

In March 2004, a friend of mine showed me a classy looking magazine called Society 1 , which he had borrowed from a mobile library in Mysore city. There was an interview, titled ‘People&s;s Princess’, which caught my eye. It was an interview with the former chief minister of the state of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje Scindia, in which she described her aristocratic background as ‘cosmopolitan’: I am as cosmopolitan as anybody can be. My mother was a Rajput from Gangni in UP. My father was a Maratha descendant. I am married into a Jat family of Dholpur. My paternal grandmother was from Goa, she was an aunt of Pratap Sinh Rane of Goa. My son Dushyant is married to Naharika, daughter of the only royal Gujjar family of UP. So, I have no agenda for any caste, community or religion ( Society , February 2004: 32)

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