Maharani Gayatri Devi: Woman Who Lived Life On Her Own Terms | #IndianWomenInHistory

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• STUNNG FACTS ABOUT GAYATRI DEVI, THE LOST MAHARANI
• REMEMBERG THE RAJMATA OF JAIPUR: 10 FACTS ABOUT MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI
• MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI: WOMAN WHO LIVED LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS | #INDIANWOMENINHISTORY
• GODSS GAYATRI DEVI
• THE FASCATG LIFE OF MORN INDIA’S MOST BETIFUL QUEENTHE STORY OF MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI WHO LIVED AN UNRTRAED LIFEKABIR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 15, 2020--2SHAREMAHARANI GAYATRI DEVISOURCE-PUBLIC DOMAMAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI BEME THE THIRD QUEEN OF JAIPUR (RAJASTHAN, INDIA) AFTER BEG MARRIED TO KG SAWAI MAN SGH II. GAYATRI DEVI WAS LISTED BY VOGUE MAGAZE AS ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL WOMEN THE WORLD.APART OM HER IMPECBLE GRACE AND ENCHANTG ROYALTY, SHE FIED ALL NVENTNS AS THE QUEEN AND LIVED HER LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS. FROM BEG AN AVID EQUTRIENNE TO PROMOTE WOMEN’S TN AND EQUALY ONE OF INDIA’S MOST PATRICENTRIC STAT (RAJASTHAN), SHE LEFT AN LIBLE STORY FOR THE GENERATNS TO E.THE EARLY LIFE OF QUEEN GAYATRI DEVIMAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI AND MAHARAJA SAWAI MAN SGH IISOURCE-PUBLIC DOMAHER HIGHNS GAYATRI DEVI WAS BORN ENGLAND 1919 THE ROYAL FAY OF COOCH BEHAR WT BENGAL. FROM AN EARLY AGE, SHE BROKE THE TRADNAL NORMS OF THE ROYAL FAY AND MARRIED THE MAN OF HER CHOICE — SAWAI MAN SGH (THE KG OF JAIPUR) WHO HAD TWO WIV. IN MAY 1940, GAYATRI DEVI MARRIED THE KG AND ACCEPTED TO BE HIS THIRD WIFE. UNLIKE, THE KG’S OTHER TWO WIV, GAYATRI DEVI NIED THE PURDAH SYSTEM. IT IS A RELIG AND SOCIAL PRACTICE PREVALENT HDU MUNI WHERE THE WOMAN HAS TO E A VEIL TO NCEAL HER FACE. SHE MA A REMARKABLE NTRIBUTN TO CURBG THE PURDAH SYSTEM OM RAJASTHAN INDIA. THE QUEEN GAYATRI DEVI WAS GIVEN THE TLE OF “QUEEN MOTHER” AFTER HER HBAND PASSED AWAY 1949.THE THREE QUALI OF GAYATRI DEVI THAT MA HER UBER-ROYAL
• WHEN 12-YEAR-OLD MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI FELL IN LOVE WH 21-YEAR-OLD MAHARAJA SAWAI MAN SGH
• REMEMBERG THE LEGACY OF MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI ON HER 100TH BIRTHDAY
• WHY DID INDIRA GANDHI HAVE GAYATRI DEVI JAILED DURG EMERGENCY?WE TAKE A LOOK AT GAYATRI DEVI’S TIME PRISON, AND HER RELATNSHIP WH INDIRA GANDHI. VISHNU GOPATHUPDATED: 23 MAY 2022, 7:30 AM ISTNEWS6 M READISHARE ON THE QUT DAILY
• ENDURG ENIGMAS: MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI
• GAYATRI DEVI: KNOW INTERTG FACTS ABOUT THE BETIFUL MAHARANI OF JAIPUR
• MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI'S LIFE WILL NOW BE A DRAMA SERI
• GAYATRI DEVI: THE MAHARANI WHO DEFIED CONVENTN AND BROKE BARRIERS
• GAYATRI DEVI, 90, A MAHARANI AND A LAWMAKER, DI
• TALE OF SAWAI MAN SGH II AND GAYATRI DEVI
• BPIC SERI ON MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI WORKS, HERE'S AN TRODUCTN TO THE BETIFUL RAJMATA OF JAIPUR
• MAHASWETA DEVI: SHORT STORI GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
• BOLD & BETIFUL, RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI DEFIED CONVENTN & LIVED LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS

STUNNG FACTS ABOUT GAYATRI DEVI, THE LOST MAHARANI

Nicknamed “Jai, ” at 21 years old he was already one of the foremost polo players the world—and although Gayatri had already met the lik of Prce Aly Khan and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., she was particularly starstck by the handsome and athletic ler. While Jai had been dulgent wh the children on his vis and let them w at tennis gam and other activi, the overnfint Gayatri assumed she was jt that good, and that’s why she won. Jai had been eyeg her all trip, and after he won the India Polo Associatn Champnship, Gayatri’s mother promised him “anythg you want ” as a iendly prize.

REMEMBERG THE RAJMATA OF JAIPUR: 10 FACTS ABOUT MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI

For one, their home liv uldn’t have been more different: Jai’s other two wiv both strictly practiced purdah, where women hid om view and kept themselv separate om men, while Gayatri enjoyed an pennt upbrgg that chafed agast the very tradns. Both Gayatri and her mother were on edge around the official royal fay, wh the dowager fearg hurt feelgs on all sis if her dghter went through wh the marriage. After a sleepls night where Gayatri threatened aga and aga to n to her love’s si only to have her mother stop her, the fay fally got another telegram.

MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI: WOMAN WHO LIVED LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS | #INDIANWOMENINHISTORY

After Jai’s bsh wh ath, the uple fast-tracked their marriage plans, ignorg the ntued prottatns of everyone Gayatri’s fay, now cludg not jt her mother but her olr siblgs, too.

Her mother, apparently feelg sperate, snapped that Gayatri was the “newt addn to the Jaipur nursery, ” while her sister Ila lled her “spels” whenever she was around her fiancé. Once Calcutta, the newlyweds elected to spend a night at Gayatri’s childhood home—only, the moment she stepped down om her transport, she knew nothg was ever gog be the same. Aga actg unr the sway of purdah, her Jaipur attendants immediately hered any male servants out of her sight, even though, as Gayatri remembered, “I had known most of them all my life.

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Shortly after the honeymoon, Gayatri had to face a dread task: To meet Jai’s send wife Jo for the first time sce she had married the Maharaja. Although Gayatri’s new iend Jo was only three years olr than her and morn by many of the culture’s standards, Jo also uldn’t even let a doctor exame her, stead needg to e her maids to act as go-betweens while the medic stood the halls.

THE FASCATG LIFE OF MORN INDIA’S MOST BETIFUL QUEENTHE STORY OF MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI WHO LIVED AN UNRTRAED LIFEKABIR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 15, 2020--2SHAREMAHARANI GAYATRI DEVISOURCE-PUBLIC DOMAMAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI BEME THE THIRD QUEEN OF JAIPUR (RAJASTHAN, INDIA) AFTER BEG MARRIED TO KG SAWAI MAN SGH II. GAYATRI DEVI WAS LISTED BY VOGUE MAGAZE AS ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL WOMEN THE WORLD.APART OM HER IMPECBLE GRACE AND ENCHANTG ROYALTY, SHE FIED ALL NVENTNS AS THE QUEEN AND LIVED HER LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS. FROM BEG AN AVID EQUTRIENNE TO PROMOTE WOMEN’S TN AND EQUALY ONE OF INDIA’S MOST PATRICENTRIC STAT (RAJASTHAN), SHE LEFT AN LIBLE STORY FOR THE GENERATNS TO E.THE EARLY LIFE OF QUEEN GAYATRI DEVIMAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI AND MAHARAJA SAWAI MAN SGH IISOURCE-PUBLIC DOMAHER HIGHNS GAYATRI DEVI WAS BORN ENGLAND 1919 THE ROYAL FAY OF COOCH BEHAR WT BENGAL. FROM AN EARLY AGE, SHE BROKE THE TRADNAL NORMS OF THE ROYAL FAY AND MARRIED THE MAN OF HER CHOICE — SAWAI MAN SGH (THE KG OF JAIPUR) WHO HAD TWO WIV. IN MAY 1940, GAYATRI DEVI MARRIED THE KG AND ACCEPTED TO BE HIS THIRD WIFE. UNLIKE, THE KG’S OTHER TWO WIV, GAYATRI DEVI NIED THE PURDAH SYSTEM. IT IS A RELIG AND SOCIAL PRACTICE PREVALENT HDU MUNI WHERE THE WOMAN HAS TO E A VEIL TO NCEAL HER FACE. SHE MA A REMARKABLE NTRIBUTN TO CURBG THE PURDAH SYSTEM OM RAJASTHAN INDIA. THE QUEEN GAYATRI DEVI WAS GIVEN THE TLE OF “QUEEN MOTHER” AFTER HER HBAND PASSED AWAY 1949.THE THREE QUALI OF GAYATRI DEVI THAT MA HER UBER-ROYAL

Wh Jai away and his send wife Jo tied up wh funeral arrangements, Gayatri was left to look after the gaggle of children around the palace, all while tryg to make their Christmas Eve as mimally morbid as possible. In 1968, her beloved mother passed at the age of 76, and although Gayatri was due to vis her on her athbed, she had to lay her flight by one day—the very day that Indira Devi passed.

In her memoirs, Gayatri herself uld barely discs her feelgs durg this time, and when she watched om her wdow as Jai’s funeral pyre went up, she remembered that “grief seized me almost like a physil spasm. And former Maharani or not, they hardly gave her special treatment: Gayatri spent five months the notor Tihar Jail, one of the largt prison plex the world. After a youth the spotlight, the widowed Gayatri spent her fal years largely secln, avoidg polics entirely and attendg only the most exclive parti—and even then, only when she felt like .

WHEN 12-YEAR-OLD MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI FELL IN LOVE WH 21-YEAR-OLD MAHARAJA SAWAI MAN SGH

By India Today Web Dk: The world's most stylish royal woman, who kept sistg that she was ordary, Gayatri Devi is a legend who will live on forever. She was one of the morn prcs and queens of India who changed liv of many people and ma a Life and Edutn Image Cred: Wikimedia CommonsGayatri Devi was born London, UK on 23rd May 1919.

She was warned that beg third wife of the kg will not be easy and she was often unr scty by others, yet she rried all her duti wh charm and grace while beg a Gayatri Devi pictured by Cecil Beaton  1940. She was also lled “People’s prcs” bee she was iative clus Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls school wh 40 stunts and one English teacher which later beme one of the bt the untry.

REMEMBERG THE LEGACY OF MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI ON HER 100TH BIRTHDAY

“She dited her life to creatg a subtle, but implitive, change society, particularly wh her ntuo efforts for the empowerment of Indian women om the nf of the veil”– Devraj Sgh of Jaipur, grandson of Maharani Gayatri DeviFrom her choice of attire to her polil cisns, she was often praised and cricised at the same time. “She dited her life to creatg a subtle, but implitive, change society, particularly wh her ntuo efforts for the empowerment of Indian women om the nf of the veil”– Devraj Sgh of Jaipur, grandson of Maharani Gayatri DeviShe spent most of her last days stgglg wh her health but she was at peace. Gayatri Devi was listed by Vogue magaze as one of the most betiful women the om her impecble grace and enchantg royalty, she fied all nventns as the queen and lived her life on her own terms.

From beg an avid equtrienne to promote women’s tn and equaly one of India’s most patricentric stat (Rajasthan), she left an lible story for the generatns to early life of Queen Gayatri DeviMaharani Gayatri Devi and Maharaja Sawai Man Sgh IISource-Public DomaHer Highns Gayatri Devi was born England 1919 the royal fay of Cooch Behar Wt Bengal.

The queen Gayatri Devi was given the tle of “queen mother” after her hband passed away three quali of Gayatri Devi that ma her uber-royalUnnventnal — Gayatri Devi’s exquise fashn sense and glamour ma her one of the most attractive queens of morn India. Before we take you further to the story, let give you an sight about Maharani Gayatri Devi, who had always followed her heart and had fied societal nventns to live life on her own terms. At the age of 21, Maharaja Sawai Man Sgh II had gone to Woodlands, Calcutta to play the polo match of 1931 and that is where he had met the love of his life, Gayatri Devi, who was 12-years-old at that time.

WHY DID INDIRA GANDHI HAVE GAYATRI DEVI JAILED DURG EMERGENCY?WE TAKE A LOOK AT GAYATRI DEVI’S TIME PRISON, AND HER RELATNSHIP WH INDIRA GANDHI. VISHNU GOPATHUPDATED: 23 MAY 2022, 7:30 AM ISTNEWS6 M READISHARE ON THE QUT DAILY

Soon, people had started noticg the brewg romance and they had warned Gayatri Devi's mother that her dghter's life as a third Maharani would be tough. In an terview wh Simi Grewal, Gayatri Devi had revealed that she had promised her hband that if she had opened a girls' school, she would remove the curta system wh 10 years. One of Vogue’s 10 most betiful women the world, Maharani Gayatri Devi’s fluence as a sartorial in has long been chronicled, cludg my bgraphy The Last Queen of Jaipur.

It is a rult of tirels efforts by over 40 participants and hundreds of skilled hands supportg them, cludg French chiffon saris by Mala Sha’s Baroda-based sign stud Bodhi, home accsori by Come Cheeni, embellished potlis by Ayhi Agarwal and exhibn will take place on October 6-8 at Coomaraswamy Hall, MumbaiAlso read:The unseen pictur give you a look at Maharani Gayatri Devi’sTake a look at the r Maharani Gayatri Devi last drove. The two powerful fai of the natn were extremely agast each other on the polil ont – Congrs had lost agast Gayatri Devi for three nsecutive tim the Lok Sabha electns.

ENDURG ENIGMAS: MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI

Dcribg Indira and Gayatri’s relatnship, a report om The Inpennt, stated, “Her [Gayatri’s] prence Parliament was to the great irratn of Indira Gandhi. As a young woman, growg up the reee atmosphere of one of India’s most relaxed royal fai, Gayatri Devi had always monstrated a philanthropic streak. She admistered the Sawai Jai Sgh Benevolent fund that was set up to help the poor of the state of Jaipur wh moary, medil and hog aid, and advotg for girl child tn, found the Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ Public School, an stutn of high reputatn India and which is to celebrate s diamond Jubilee (75 years) this year.

While prison, Gayatri Devi gave lsons to the children, arrangg for slat and textbooks, and also helped set up a Badmton urt for the children.

After the Emergency was lifted, and when the electns were announced, Gayatri Devi did not ntt and only said she did not want to pursue polics a mocratic untry that was led by a dictator (obvly referrg to Indira Gandhi). (This story was first published on 23 May 2018 and has been reposted om The Qut’s archiv to mark Gayatri Devi’s birth anniversary on 23 May 2022. )The third Maharani of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi, was sent to Tihar Jail July 1975, where she spent nearly six months durg the Emergency imposed unr the directn of Prime Mister Indira Gandhi.

GAYATRI DEVI: KNOW INTERTG FACTS ABOUT THE BETIFUL MAHARANI OF JAIPUR

Opposn lears, journalists and others she viewed as a threat were rcerated durg the Emergency, many for offenc unr the now ad Matenance of Internal Secury (MISA) those targeted by Gandhi was the then Prcs of Cooch Behar, third Maharani of Jaipur, Rajmata Gayatri Devi.

Gayatri Devi was thrown Tihar Jail 1975, shortly after Indira Gandhi clared who was she and why did she earn a place on the list of many people nsired “enemi” by Indira Gandhi? The dghter of Maharaja Jendra Narayan and Indira Devi, the lers of the kgdom of Cooch Behar, Gayatri grew up the lap of a 6-year urtship wh Maharaja Sawai “Jai” Man Sgh II, the ler of Jaipur, which began when she was jt 12 years old, she married Man Sgh, to bee his third wife, and the Maharani of refed to abi by the purdah system which Man Sgh’s first two wiv agreed to.

MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI'S LIFE WILL NOW BE A DRAMA SERI

Gayatri Devi, who was also featured on Vogue magaze’s list of 10 most betiful women the world, proved repeatedly through her life that she was more than jt “betiful” 1962, Gayatri Devi ntted the Lok Sabha electns om Jaipur, and won by a landsli majory, 192, 909 vot out of 246, 516 – 78% – a world rerd marg acrdg to multiple reports at the time. Gayatri Devi ntted on the Swatantra Party’s ticket, the party found by C Rajagopalachari, the party that was the primary challenger to the Congrs Government’s Sharda Drew Indira Gandhi’s Ire? ”A report om The Inpennt, while scribg Indira and Gayatri’s relatnship, stated that:“Her [Gayatri] prence Parliament was to the great irratn of Indira Gandhi.

”Further, when Indira Gandhi and Gayatri Devi were at Patha Bhavana together, Gandhi reportedly had major problems wh Gayatri Devi’s “bety and unabashed display of wealth”, addg to the risn she felt towards royalty. Addnally, after the landsli victory the 1962 Lok Sabha polls, was evint that Gayatri Devi was a polil juggernt, a force to be reckoned, 1965, Prime Mister Lal Bahadur Shastri offered Gayatri Devi a chance to jo the party.

Gayatri Devi, who had ntted on the Anti-Congrs plank, refed, and the Swatantra Party would go on to ally wh the Jan Sangh, wng Lok Sabha electns 1967, but losg the assembly electns Malpura nstuency to Damodar Lal Vyas.

GAYATRI DEVI: THE MAHARANI WHO DEFIED CONVENTN AND BROKE BARRIERS

Gayatri Devi’s home on Aurangzeb road was raid by e tax officials, who rmed her that she was facg arrt unr the COFEPOSA (Conservatn of Foreign Exchange and Preventn of Smugglg Act), for alleged unclared gold and wealth.

Gayatri Devi’s Life PrisonGayatri Devi was thrown Tihar Jail July 1975, where she spent nearly six months durg the shared her cell wh Shrilatha Swamathan, an NGO worker who was imprisoned for anisg farmhoe workers who worked on the borr areas of Delhi, cludg those who worked on a farmhoe owned by Rajiv prison, the Rajmata gave lsons to the children Tihar Jail, arrangg for slat and textbooks. Gayatri Devi, an terview wh the Tim of IndiaAfter her release, she retired om polics and wrote A Prcs Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur, an tobgraphy that was released a rult of her clarg the Emergency, the thoands of arrts, and the forced sterilisatn programme that was rried out unr her ernment, Indira lost the 1977 electns to the Janata Party, a party bbled together wh multiple opposn parti, to oppose Gandhi and the State of Emergency the untry. One among five siblgs, Gayatri Devi was tutored at home, holidayed Europe, shot her first panther durg shikar at the age of 12, and was an avid equtrian and aficnado of classic rs, cloth and jewels om a young age.

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Gayatri Devi remembers her memoirs, her mother’s disapproval of the marriage on grounds that Gayatri Devi ‘would jt be a fixture the Jaipur nursery’. Adamant, Gayatri Devi and Man Sgh married wh the blsg of both their fai (or rather, of her fay, sce the Maharaja did not require anyone’s approval) right before the Send World War began. Gayatri Devi wr tail of the dynamics the royal hoehold; of how there were no feelgs of jealoy or enmy between her and the other maharanis, each of whom was secure their rol the hierarchy of the zenana.

Gayatri Devi says that one of the reasons her hband was keen to marry her was her ‘morn’ upbrgg that ma her stand out among other prcs of the time.

TALE OF SAWAI MAN SGH II AND GAYATRI DEVI

Gayatri Devi had studied at Glendower Preparatory School London, at the Visva Bharati Universy Shantiketan unr Rabdranath Tagore himself, at a boardg school Swzerland, had learned how to wre official rrponnce, and mata acunts at the London School of Secretari. Rememberg a newly pennt and mocratised India her memoir, Gayatri Devi laments the breakdown of their ‘old way of life’, and wr—wh a nsirable bias of urse —of how the new system of mocracy distanced the erned om those who ern. As happens, the party had approached Gayatri Devi’s hband before the first general electns 1952, offerg him a ticket to ntt electns om the nstuency formed om his former kgdom.

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In her very first electn, Maharani Gayatri Devi set a Guns Book world rerd as a ndidate elected wh the most vot ever any mocracy up until that pot for her electoral victory 1962.

A later, durg the emergency flicted on the untry by Indira Gandhi, Gayatri Devi was imprisoned for five months on the charg of holdg unclared wealth. In her memoirs, she remembers that her imprisonment was due to her facg the wrath of a lud Indira Gandhi whose syphants had poisoned the premiere agast the Maharani on the grounds of Gayatri Devi’s long-standg and vol opposn to the Congrs, and her populary abroad and India. Dpe everythg that is remembered of her, is worth appreciatg that stead of lettg her wealth, privilege and power shackle her to an unremarkable life of fort, Maharani Gayatri Devi stepped out and did somethg wh all that was given to her.

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Also, she opened a -tnal school memory of her late hband, Maharaja Sawai Man Sgh 't Miss:The Journey Graph of Kangana Rant Seems To Be Racg DownwardsGayatri vi - Polician.

Now, more than a after her ath, a world-class drama seri based on her life has been SERIES ON GAYATRI DEVI, THE RAJMATA OF JAIPUR On Febary 18, was announced that Maharani Gayatri Devi's grandchildren, Maharaj Devraj Sgh and Rajkumari Lalya have granted life rights to make a world-class seri on their beloved grandmother. — IN10 Media Network (@10_media) Febary 18, 2021Adya Ptie, Managg Director of IN10 Media Network, said that they are exced to prent the story of Gayatri Devi to a global dience.

BOLD & BETIFUL, RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI DEFIED CONVENTN & LIVED LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS

BREAKING RULES WAS THE NORM FOR THE RAJMATAUnlike the other wiv of Maharaja Sawai Man Sgh II, Maharani Gayatri Devi refed to be nfed by purdah.

MAHARANI GAYATRI DEVI AND POLITICSThe royal entered active polics 1962 when she ntted the Parliamentary electns on a Swatantra Party ticket om Jaipur. She won aga 1971In 1943, Gayatri Devi tablished a school for girls lled Gayatri Devi School for Girls wh 40 stunts, which is today nsired among one of the ft the untry.

ALSO READ | Gayatri Devi and Jai Sgh to Padmanabh: What li beneath the glamour of JaipurEded By: Risha Chowdhury Published On: Feb 19, 2021--- ENDS. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJuly 30, 2009Gayatri Devi, formerly the Maharani of Jaipur, who was born to fairy-tale wealth as an Indian prcs and who beme known ternatnally for her bety and known India for her opposn to the Congrs Party of Jawaharlal Neh and Indira Gandhi, died Wednday Jaipur, northwtern India. ’ ” Gayatri Devi was born London on May 23, 1919, the dghter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, a district of what is now Wt Bengal, close to the Himalayan foothills of India’s far northeast.