Once a Prince of Sarila: Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbattens

by Narendra Singh Sarila

Princely India in the 1930s and '40s enjoyed a golden age which already seems immeasurably distant from the thriving, modern nation of today. These were halcyon days of bejewelled and autocratic Maharajas; life in marble palaces mirrored in lakes or in mighty stone fortresses on craggy hills; tiger hunts on elephant-back and elephant hunts on foot; and lavish house parties ringing with the sound of polo and music and laughter.As heir apparent to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845117077
• ISBN13: 9781845117078
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"