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| Title | Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts |
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| Author | Mrs Anna Jackson Deputy Keeper of the Asian Department The V&A Museum |
| Journal | Asian Affairs, Volume 40 Number 3 |
| Date | November 2009 |
| Introduction | A curtain-raiser for the current 'Maharaja' Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum, which explains the evolution of Indian concepts of kingship from the early18th to the mid-twentieth centuries. The article describes how pageantry and symbolism formed part of the essentials of kingship, together with martial prowess and patronage of the arts. The British Raj thus took over a valid existing pattern of behaviour, which however became increasingly difficult to sustain and justify as independence loomed. |
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