Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM
10 October 2009-17 January 2010
Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts re-examines the world of the maharajas and their extraordinarily rich culture. The exhibition spans the period from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid-20th century, bringing together over 250 magnificent objects, many being lent from India’s royal collections for the first time. It examines the changing role of the maharajas within a social and historical context and reveals how their patronage of the arts, both in India and Europe, resulted in splendid and beautiful objects symbolic of royal status, power and identity. (…more at Victoria & Albert Museum website…)