num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: Hindoo Holiday
titlecomplete: Hindoo Holiday
genres: Classics, British Literature, History, Travel, India, Asia, Biography, 20th Century, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 442
publisher: NYRB Classics