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.[]
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