Maharajah of Bikaner: India

by Hugh Purcell

The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, Ganga Singh commanded his own camel corps called the Ganga Risala, fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army and persuaded the maharajas to unite into the Chamber of Princes. As a result of this and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905791801
• ISBN13: 9781905791804
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Haus Pub.
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"