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Author's Presentation copy of IMPRESSIONS DE MES VOYAGES AUX INDES, by PRINCESs PREM KAUR of KAPURTHALA, 'The Spanish Maharani', Anita Delgado Briones New York, Sturgis and Walton Company, September 1915 image 1
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Author's Presentation copy of IMPRESSIONS DE MES VOYAGES AUX INDES, by PRINCESs PREM KAUR of KAPURTHALA, 'The Spanish Maharani', Anita Delgado Briones New York, Sturgis and Walton Company, September 1915 image 3
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Author's Presentation copy of IMPRESSIONS DE MES VOYAGES AUX INDES, by PRINCESs PREM KAUR of KAPURTHALA, 'The Spanish Maharani', Anita Delgado Briones
New York, Sturgis and Walton Company, September 1915

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Author's Presentation copy of IMPRESSIONS DE MES VOYAGES AUX INDES, by PRINCESs PREM KAUR of KAPURTHALA, 'The Spanish Maharani', Anita Delgado Briones
New York, Sturgis and Walton Company, September 1915

106 pages, plus 7-page introduction, 16 plates, inscribed by the author on reverse of frontispiece Souvenir amical/Prem Kaur de Kapurthala/Paris 8.11.1915, correction in ink to one word on p. 1, apparently by the author, original purple cloth binding with gilt title on cover and spine
195 x 130 mm.

Footnotes

Anita Delgado Briones (1890-1962) was a Spanish dancer who in 1906 fascinated the Maharajah of Kapurthala, Jagatjit Singh (reg. 1877-1949), when he was visiting Madrid for the wedding of the King of Spain. They married in 1908 in France, and after a Sikh wedding in India, she changed her name to Maharani Prem Kaur. They travelled extensively in both Europe and India and this book was her memoir of the time. When the Maharaja married his seventh wife in 1925, they divorced and Prem Kaur returned to Spain.

For a brief discussion of Maharajah Jagatjit Singh, see A. Jackson, A. Jaffer (ed.), Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts, London 2009, pp. 130-131.

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