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No. of Pages=284 Plus 20 pages of black and white pictures I started to read this book with great expectations, may be this is one of the reasons I barely finished reading this book. Then I thought , if I should include this book in our Reading section because I have given it only **. Then I thought, including this book would act as an inventory of the books that I have read. If the Webmaster differs, I will refrain from including ** books from this site. by the same token, some one other than me may be greatly interested in reading about the maharajas. <font color =blue> This book has lot of information about the luxurious and extravagent life styles of the maharajas. It has quite revealing information about 6 plus foot tall playboy Maharaja of patiala. He bragged about having a new woman every night when he was young and felt sorry for himself when he could handle only one woman a week after he turned 60. It also describes the consumation of a 300 pound maharaja by using a clanted bed to position his wife(to avoid death by crushing under his immense weight. The bed was designed after elephants were observed in act of having sex. It was funny. Another funny example is of a very young maharani who was a vergin on her wedding night. The maharaja could not consumate marrige (could not have sex because each time the maharaja tried, it pained so much that the maharani screamed and the whole palace could hear it. The maharani cried for five nights during the attempts by the maharaja. On the 6th day the screams stopped and the whole palace know that the marriage has been consumated. There are may stories of different maharajas and their ideosyncries. For example Nizam of hyserabad , one of the richest prince in his time was so frugal that he walked with the support a broken kept together by tying a rope.