In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World by Manera Sambuy, Livia
In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World by Manera Sambuy, Livia

In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World

As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the...
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Author: Livia Manera Sambuy
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In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World by Manera Sambuy, Livia

In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World

$45.30
In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World by Manera Sambuy, Livia

In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World

$45.30
Author: Livia Manera Sambuy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi.

On a sweltering day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself at a museum in Mumbai, enthralled by a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess. What she reads in the picture's caption will change her life forever. This alluring Punjabi royal had supposedly sold her jewels in occupied wartime Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year.

Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unreported? Almost against her will, Manera becomes drawn into the mystery of Amrit Kaur. Delving into the history of the British Raj, its durbars and society balls and jubilees, she shows us the precipitous decline of India's royal caste through the lives of extraordinary figures such as Amrit's father, the larger-than-life Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala; the Jewish banker Albert Kahn; and the Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich--all while pursuing the elusive Amrit Kaur's story.

When she meets with the princess's eighty-year-old daughter, Manera's search takes on a new dimension, as she strives to reintroduce an orphan to a mother who disappeared in 1933, leaving behind two children, her raja husband, and a legacy of activism in India's nascent women's civil rights movement.

In Search of Amrit Kaur is an engrossing detective story, a kaleidoscopic history lesson, and a moving portrait of a woman seeking personal freedom against the backdrop of a world in upheaval.

Author: Livia Manera Sambuy
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/12/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250872227
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