Description
Author's impressions of her travels through the Indian States in the late 1930s often as a guest of the ruler or his Prime Minister.
Written at a time when six hundred and thirty five Princes ruled two fifths of India and a quarter of its population Many were absolute monarchs linked only by treaty with the British Crown. Vitally important to modern India and to the then empire, the played a great part both in peace and war. This book was the first of its kind, tells of life in the Royal states and also life in in village and factory, among merchants, labourers, money lenders, artisans and gypsies as well as in the palaces beneficent autocrats.
ISBN:INDIAOFTHEPRIN
