About the Book: The Teenage Diary of Jodh Bai
In the Rajput kingdom of Amber, Jodh Bai, daughter of King Bihari Mal, is now a
teenager. Her clan, the Kachhwahas, are a proud warrior race, but Jodh Bai is a
dreamer and poet at heart. When she picks up an empty accounting book and starts
writing her thoughts in it, she ends up recording the happenings in the world
around her—the joys, sorrows and ambitions of the women, the brothers and uncles
who are trained to be warriors, the beauty of the arid landscape, and the
politics of the times that is bringing the Mughals