Book excerpt: A Maharajah with a peerage granted by the ruling British has a great favourite in one daughter. She is a beauty and reciprocates the father’s fondness, but is defiant and refuses any marriage proposal arranged by the father. She falls in love with a Muslim and has to face the wrath of the father, possible banishment or a trade off to a very old Maharajah. She clandestinely marries the Muslim. India gets divided, and she has no option but to move to Pakistan where the reception from a close relative by marriage is unbecoming.What follows next is for the reader to witness.