India's maharajahs or rulers of princely states are commonly viewed through stereotypes of elephants, dancing girls, and grand palaces. Historian Manu Pillai revisits their legacy. If you look ...

Published in the print edition of the November 8, 1958, issue, with the headline “THE LAST DAYS OF THE MAHARAJAHS A Question of Existence..” Emily Hahn, who died in 1997, published fifty-four ...

India's 562 princes occupied nearly half its landmass and ruled over a third of its population They lived in fairy-tale palaces, amassed untold fortunes in diamonds and precious stones, maintained ...

For the criminal neglect of our ancient monuments, all our politicians need to answer. There was much more to Indian civilisation than religion and temples but inexplicably, nobody in these Hindutva ...

The Father of Modern Malayalam Prose, in other words, was killed by a stray dog. Manu S. Pillai is a historian and author, ...

Manu S. Pillai is a historian and author, most recently, of False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma.

This, notwithstanding the fact that India’s maharajahs fed their horses an absurd diet of ghee (clarified butter), unrefined ...

Sri Vidhushekara Bharathi, the 37th pontiff of the Sringeri Sarada Peetham, a seat of learning that stretches back to Adi ...

The fort is entered by 7 gates, each built by successive Maharajahs to celebrate victories. The fort contains the Moti Mahal (Pearl Palace), the Phool Mahal (Flower Palace), and the Sheesh Mahal ...

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Before it became a National Park, the forest around Bandhavgarh had been maintained as a Shikargah, or game preserve, of the Maharajahs of Rewa.Bandhavgarh came under the regulations of Madhya ...