Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 300 pages)
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illustrations, map
Ausgabe:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Ausgabe:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755625048
Inhalt:
Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: An Elephant was my Pram -- Chapter 2: My Father -- Chapter 3: My Mother -- Chapter 4: Life in the Palace - I -- Chapter 5: Life in the Palace - II -- Chapter 6: Round Table Conference in London -- Chapter 7: A Tiger is Shot in Sarila -- Chapter 8: The Political Department -- Chapter 9: May - the Eton of India -- Chapter 10: Dussehra Durbar -- Chapter 11: The Princely States of Rajputana -- Chapter 12: Turmoil in Sarila -- Chapter 13: The Revolutionary -- Chapter 14: Nawab Misses a Tiger -- Chapter 15: The Charkhari Succession -- Chapter 16: Mussoorie -- Chapter 17: The Last Delhi Durbar -- Chapter 18: A New Order -- Chapter 19: Why the Princes Collapsed -- Chapter 20: The Viceregal (Government) House -- Chapter 21: ADC to Lord Mountbatten -- Epilogue.
Inhalt:
"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 the central Indian kingdom of Sarila, Narendra Singh Sarila was born into the very heart of this society and his life offers a unique vista on a vanished world. This warm and unsentimental personal history beautifully evokes life at the end of the British Raj in vivid and colourful detail. But it also reveals how, despite their position, Sarila and his family embraced the changes occasioned by Independence and adapted rapidly to its new demands.In 1947, at the age of just 21, Sarila put his childhood concerns firmly behind him when he became Aide de Camp to Lord Mountbatten, the last British Governor General of India. Once a Prince in Sarila draws on his experiences and his detailed diaries from the period and includes intimate and revealing portraits of Lord Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, as well as their many prestigious visitors - including Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel among other top civil and military leaders, both British and Indian."Once a Prince in Sarila" is a unique history of a forgotten world and Sarila is a sensitive and perceptive guide to India's transition from Empire to an independent nation."--Bloomsbury publishing
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ISBN 9781845117078
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Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9780755625048
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