New India Epub

Enter the portal that will export you all the way to that historic stroke of the midnight hour!The year 1947 was one of change. After almost 200 years of British rule, India became a united political entity. Only one question rang loud: What type of nation would the new India be?

The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote and ‘Dickie' Mountbatten, entertained lavishly at their magnificent palaces and hunting lodges in Rajasthan–and in the nightclubs of London, Paris and New York. But as the Raj gave way to the new India, Jaipur–the most glamorous and romantic of the princely states–had to find its place.