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Article: Pretty in pink Jaipur, India The luxury of royalty endures in the palaces
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 30, 1996
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JAIPUR, India -- "Tourism is ruining India," she said, and that
was the extent of my interview with the Maharani of Jaipur, whose
opinion of journalists is apparently even lower than her view of
tourists.
I'd started reading the autobiography of the now 77-year-old
maharani, "A Princess Remembers," to get something of the flavor of
Jaipur, the Rajput kingdom her late husband once ruled. I was
vaguely surprised and pleased to find that one of the Jaipur hotels
where I stayed, the Rambagh Palace, had been her palace at one point,
and that the other, the Jai Mahal Palace, had been the residence of
her prime minister. And when I left Jaipur for Ranthambhore National
Park, it turned out not only ...