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Once a Prince of Sarila

Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbattens

By: Narendra Singh Sarila

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Once a Prince of Sarila

Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbattens

By: Narendra Singh Sarila

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.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857715283

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9780857715289

Once a Prince of Sarila

Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbattens

By: Narendra Singh Sarila

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Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbattens

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The Shadow of the Great Game

The Untold Story of India's Partition

By: Narendra Singh Sarila

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The Shadow of the Great Game

The Untold Story of India's Partition

By: Narendra Singh Sarila

The untold story of India's Partition. The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - and partition. Narendra Singh Sarela reveals here how hte Great Gane against the Soviet Union cast a long shadow. The top-secret documentary evidence unearthed by the author sheds new light on several prominent figures, including Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell and Nerhu. This radical reassessment of one of the key events in British colonial history is important in itself, but its claim that many of the roots of Islamic terrorism sweeping the world today lie in the partition of India has much wider implications.

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496

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Constable

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1472128222

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9781472128225

Vibhajan Ki Asali Kahani

By: Narendra Singh Sarila

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Vibhajan Ki Asali Kahani

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On the history of India's partition.

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428

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Rajkamal Prakashan

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8126715790

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9788126715794

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