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Hindoo Holiday

Name: Hindoo Holiday
ISBN: 9780940322257

J. R. Ackerley

New York Review Books · Paperback · January 31, 2000

Reading lane: India & South Asia Travel

In the 1920s, the young J.

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Courtly Oddities

Ackerley’s journal-based travel account finds humor in an eccentric Indian court.

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A personal, funny view of a small principality’s court
Travel writing attentive to the odd

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Riddling conversations and eccentric habits
The court’s odd, shambling daily rhythms

Book Details

Authors: J. R. Ackerley
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: January 31, 2000
Format: Paperback
Theme: India & South Asia Travel · Literary Travel
Reading lane: India & South Asia Travel

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Personal Memoirs
India & South Asia Travel
Literary Travel

About This Book

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.