Maharaja : the splendour of India's royal courts /
The word 'maharaja' - literally 'great king' - conjures up a vision of splendour and magnificence. This book examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of...
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London :
V & A Pub.,
2009.
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| ISBN: | 9781851775736 1851775730 9781851776474 1851776478 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber, Raja Serfoji of Tanjore / Anna Jackson and Amin Jaffer
- Kingship in India : Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Punjab, Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi / Barbara N. Ramusack
- The power of public splendour : Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda, Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner / Joanne Punzo Waghorne
- Palace life : Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala, Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV of Mysore / Ramya Sreenivasan
- Patronage at court : Maharana Fateh Singh of Mewar, Maharaja Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar / Rosemary Crill
- Palaces and the politics of style : Nizam Osman Ali Khan Asaf Jah of Hyderabad, Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar II of Indore / Giles Tillotson
- Indian princes and the west / Amin Jaffer.