She is also concerned when she discovers, on arrival at the bungalow of Satapur's British Agent, Colin Sandringham, that he is a bachelor. Pointedly, she asked, "What is the maharani's name?" Purveen didn't like the way he had almost forgotten about the princess, nor that he had labeled the young maharaja's mother a widow, when she should have been called a queen. "He has a little sister, but I do not know her name." "What children? You only mentioned Prince Jiva Rao." When offering her the job, Sir David Hobson-Jones, one of the Bombay Governor's chief advisers, mentions that the British Agent in Satapur was responsible for the well-being of the royal children: Purveen resents the continuance of British rule and administration in India, and she has to hide her nationalist beliefs and her admiration for Gandhi when she is persuaded to accept this commission from the British for her Father's law firm. Having solved the mystery of a murder at Malabar Hill and demonstrated her usefulness in dealing with women who observe purdah, Purveen Mistry, the first woman lawyer in Bombay, has been commissioned by the British administrators of the district to investigate the reasons for this dispute. Now, his widowed mother and his grandmother, the dowager maharani, are in bitter dispute over how best to continue his education. His father and his elder brother have died, so he has inherited the throne of this small, remote Indian kingdom. India 1922: The Crown Prince of Satapur, Jiva Rao, is only ten years old.
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