Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts
Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts is the V&A’s latest exhibition (until 17 January 2010). It sets out to explore the lives of India’s princes from the 18th century to the end of British rule in 1947. In the first room, a life-sized model elephant in all its finery — silver earrings, necklace, harness and howdah — stands ready to lead a royal procession.
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