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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal

William Dalrymple

3.1/5 ( ratings)

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.

Pages: 283

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin

Release: March 26, 2009

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal

William Dalrymple

3.1/5 ( ratings)

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.

Pages: 283

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin

Release: March 26, 2009

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