Shadow Princess (58 page)
Authors: Indu Sundaresan
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Sundaresan, Indu.
Shadow princess : a novel / Indu Sundaresan. — 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
p. cm.
1. Princesses—India—Fiction. 2. Mumtaz Mahal, Empress, consort of Shah Jahan, Emperor of India, d. 1631—Fiction. 3. Shah Jahan, Emperor of India, ca. 1592–1666—Family—Fiction. 4. Emperors—Succession—India—Fiction. 5. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 6. Taj Mahal (Agra, India)—Fiction. 7. India—History—1526–1765—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3619.U53S53 2010
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2009036610
ISBN 978-1-4165-4879-9
ISBN 978-1-4165-4880-5 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4391-6914-8 (ebook)