The MaharajahsThey had their own armies, concubines by the hundreds, private jungles in which elephants, tigers and leopards roamed. Many held powers of life and death over their subjects; a few were thought to be divine. These were the Maharajahs, the princes of India, said by John Lord to be the last great anachronism of modern times, feudal barons living in a nuclear age.--book cover. |
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