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NEW YORK - Gayatri Devi, the former maharani of Jaipur who died Wednesday, was “one of the last remaining symbols of India’s feudal past” and led “a life of novelistic dimensions, part E.M. Forster, part Jackie Collins”, says the New York Times.
