Private Life of an Indian Prince - Softcover

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Anands most profound study of human nature The story of a mans compelling love for a woman, this is at the same time a historical novel of unusual power, showing the demise of the princely states with the birth of a free India. Maharaja Ashok Kumar of Sham Pur asserts complete independence for his small hill-state rather than join the Indian Union. A febrile romantic who has inherited more of the vices than the virtues of his ancestors, he is encouraged by his nymphomaniac mistress Ganga Dasi, a powerful and illiterate hill-woman whom he has installed in his palace to the exclusion of his three legitimate maharanis. To feed his mistresss greed, he extorts large sums of money from his starving peasantry. This provokes a revolt in Sham Pur which in turn incurs the extreme displeasure of the government in Delhi. His personal impulses and passions blind the Maharaja from the larger social issues involved. He meets Gangas challenge with hysterical tears, and his people and the Government of India with melodramatic gestures and self-deluding lies. Needless to say, he loses both contests. Exiled to London, he seduces a shop girl with all his former princely finesse. But he cannot forget his mistress and his love for her brings about his downfall.

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Mulk Raj Anand (19052004) was born in Peshawar and educated at the universities of Punjab and London. After earning his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1929, he began writing notes for T.S. Eliots magazine Criterion as well as books on diverse subjects such as cooking and the arts. Recognition came with the publication of his first two novels, Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936). These were followed by the well-known trilogy The Village (1939), Across the Back Waters (1940) and The Sword and the Sickle (1942). By the time he returned to India in 1946, he was the best-known Indian writer abroad. Making Bombay his home and centre of activity, Anand plunged completely into the cultural and social life of India. He founded and edited the fine art magazine Marg and worked tirelessly on his monumental autobiographical fiction The Seven Ages of Man. Recipient of several honorary doctorates and other distinctions, he spent his last years at his retreat in Khandala, where he had opened a small dispensary for the poor.

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  • PublisherHarperCollins
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 817223760X
  • ISBN 13 9788172237608
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages424
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