Volume 36, Number 8 · May 18, 1989
Good Night, Sweet Princes
By Ian Buruma
Raj: A Novel
by Gita Mehta
Simon and Schuster, 479 pp., $19.95
Maharaja: The Spectacular Heritage of Princely India
by Andrew Robinson, photographs by Sumio Uchiyama
Vendome Press, 160 pp., $50.00
Gita Mehta sets the scene well: India, the Roaring Twenties, the Royal Calcutta Turf Club. Jaya, wife of Prince Pratap of Sirpur, is watching the races, dressed in red and indigo, the Sirpur colors. She is joined by her brother-in-law, Maharajah Victor, a gentle man in love with a Hollywood star:
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