Pax Britannica by Jan Morris

Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780571265978
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2010-10-05T18:15:00+00:00

1 Jaipur is now the capital of the Indian province called Rajasthan, though its Maharajah is still rich and powerful. There are few signs that it ever owed allegiance to the British, beyond the Albert Hall and the photographs of polo-playing princes in the best hotel (itself one of the Maharajah’s properties). Perhaps, in a place of such fiery character, the suzerainty of the Raj was more flimsy than it seemed in 1897. When Bishop Heber the hymn-writer visited the State earlier in the century, he was given a present by the Maharanee consisting of two horses and an elephant. The elephant was so vicious that nobody could go near it, and of the horses one was ‘as lame as a cat’ and the other at least thirty years old.

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