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London : Century Publishing / Taj Hotel Group, 1984 Book. Illus. by Adityar Patankar. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. This lavishly illustrated book on the picturesque lifestyle of the erstwhile Indian princes and Maharajas is now available in a revised Indian edition. The Princes may have become mere citizens but the enchantment remains.Illustrated witj . with specially commissioned photographs by Aditya Patankar. 252p. glossary. index. Dj now in protective sleeve. Large format heavy volume.

Penguin UK, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. New Edition. For generation after generation those doughty Victorians and Edwardians were sent out to the great teeming subcontinent of India: to the heat, the smells, the sickness and to a lifestyle that made few concessions to India or to the changing times. it was a world of pukka sahibs and tough burra mems, of Cold Weather Tours, rigidly defined orders of social precedence, dak bungalows, Roorkee chairs, bedding rolls, punkah-wallahs, cholera belts and solar-topees.142p. illus.

Karachi, Pakistan: BBCL Publications, 2016 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. "Sawdust Castles has its roots in the forced migration of the author's parents when India and Pakistan were partitioned in 1947. It is a story abiout the experiences of a family who abandoned the place Bareilly, India, where their cultural identity had flourished for centuries. It is a narrative of the many miseries inflicted upon them by migration, and the pain of their crippled hopes and fractured dreams, the undignified circumstances they endured and the sufferings they braved ass they struggled to survive in Pakistan. Edited by S.M.Shahid. 330p. plates Author inscription on dedication paege lse new[The author became an actor, playwright, TV producer as well as a respected international banker who now lives in Toronto].