There is wealth, then there is old-world Indian royal wealth – limitless, audacious, whimsical, often bordering on ridiculous, but undeniably fascinating. Before taxation, abolition of privy purses and modern governance arrived, the princely rulers of India lived inside an economy shaped entirely by opulence. Gold was currency, extravagance was inheritance, and the meaning of “too much” simply did not exist. Their lives read less like history and more like satire. They bought cars only to convert them into dustbins. They threw weddings for dogs. They ordered crystal furniture knowing fully well that if anyone bumped into a chair the palace would hear a shatter. These men lived in a universe where imagination was the only spending limit.
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