In the annals of world history there are few more striking tales than those of Princely India. The Maharajas became bywords for excess, for lifetimes spent in extravagant expenditure and splendour on an almost unparalleled scale. The Princes, their palaces and feudal loyalties live on, and the full gorgeous spectacle of their life-style is captured for perhaps the last time in the pages of this book. This is very much a visual story, full of dazzling colours: a story of throne rooms with gilded and painted ceilings, crystal fountains and peacocks in terraced gardens, gold and silver treasures, of weddings, celebrations and festivals, and of the Maharajas themselves and their families, in public and in private.
- ISBN10 0500541361
- ISBN13 9780500541364
- Publish Date 26 September 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 April 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English