False Allies: India's Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma by Manu S. Pillai

False Allies: India's Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma

Manu S. Pillai

556 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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India’s maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by lust and luxury. Bejewelled parasites, they cared more, we are told, for elephants and palaces than for schools and public works. The British cheerfully circulated the i...

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