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Country bringing down current queen (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rani

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'queen' is the definition.
(historical term for a Hindu queen)

'country bringing down current' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'current' could be 'i' (symbol for electric current) and 'i' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ran' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for rani that I've seen before include "Wife of a raja" , "Rajah's wife from Iran" , "Royal Indian female" , "Member of royal family" , "Raja's queen" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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