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Private Life of an Indian Prince

Mulk Raj Anand · 1953 CE · Novel · Indian · Modernist

The maharaja of a small hill state refuses to sign his kingdom into the new India, plays his ministers against Delhi's agent, and gives what attention he has left to a hill woman who despises him. His physician and secretary tells it, half servant and half keeper. Anand's late and coldest book, written out of his own years inside a princely household.

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