In this fourth revealing report from his Indian travels, Alan Whicker journeys through the princely state of Rajasthan to chronicle the end of this golden era in which a Sun God has been transformed into a Mister, and to see what has happened to this most exotic race of Maharajahs. He meets the dignified queen mother - the Rajmata of Jaipur, who tells of being cast into prison by Mrs Gandhi. The present Maharajah keeps a team of polo ponies, and also plays the game on elephants, but lesser mortals must use bicycles. Jodhpur's palace is now an hotel, as is the Lake Palace of the Maharana of Udaipur, whose family is the oldest in the world. In the 15th-century desert city of Bikaner, the Maharajah remembers sand grouse shoots with King George V.
