08-03-2005, 10:37 PM
INDIA-MAHARAJAS-ROLLSROYCE
In this undated picture, a custom-made Rolls Royce Silver Ghost is decked out in feudal finery outside an Indian Maharaja's palace. India's pampered maharajas were well known for their crave for luxury cars, especially the Rolls-Royce as a new book "Rolls-Royce and the Indian Prince" relates the commercially heady and eccentric relationship between the luxury automobile firm and the maharajas. The author, Murad Ali Baig, says at least 20,000 Rolls-Royces purred their way off the production line before World War II -- 20 percent of them bound for British-ruled India.
AFP PHOTO/COURTESY OF THE ROLI COLLECTION
In this undated picture, a custom-made Rolls Royce Silver Ghost is decked out in feudal finery outside an Indian Maharaja's palace. India's pampered maharajas were well known for their crave for luxury cars, especially the Rolls-Royce as a new book "Rolls-Royce and the Indian Prince" relates the commercially heady and eccentric relationship between the luxury automobile firm and the maharajas. The author, Murad Ali Baig, says at least 20,000 Rolls-Royces purred their way off the production line before World War II -- 20 percent of them bound for British-ruled India.
AFP PHOTO/COURTESY OF THE ROLI COLLECTION