In search of Amrit Kaur a lost princess and her vanished world Lost princess and her vanished world Il segreto di Amrit Kaur. English Sambuy, Livia Manera 1958- creator author. Portnowitz, Todd 1986- translator. text bibliography biography Biography. Biographies. History. Biographies. Travel writing. nyu 2023 2023 First American edition. monographic eng ita print x, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cm "As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi"-- "On a sweltering day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself at a museum in Mumbai, enthralled by a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess. What she reads in the picture's caption will change her life forever. This alluring Punjabi royal had supposedly sold her jewels in occupied wartime Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unreported? Almost against her will, Manera becomes drawn into the mystery of Amrit Kaur. Delving into the history of the British Raj, its durbars and society balls and jubilees, she shows us the precipitous decline of India's royal caste through the lives of extraordinary figures such as Amrit's father, the larger-than-life Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala; the Jewish banker Albert Kahn; and the Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich--all while pursuing the elusive Amrit Kaur's story. When she meets with the princess's eighty-year-old daughter, Manera's search takes on a new dimension, as she strives to reintroduce an orphan to a mother who disappeared in 1933, leaving behind two children, her raja husband, and a legacy of activism in India's nascent women's civil rights movement." -- inside front jacket flap. Glimpses -- Voices -- Road trip -- Louise -- Sapphires of Kashmir -- Goodbyes. Livia Manera Sambuy ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz. "Originally published in 2022 by Feltrinelli, Italy, as Il segreto di Amrit Kaur." Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and index. Text in English, translated from the Italian. a-ii--- e-fr--- Rani of Mandi Amrit Kaur 1904-1948 Sambuy, Livia Manera 1958- Travel Princesses India Biography Kapūrthala (India : District) Biography Mandi (India : District) Biography Paris (France) Biography India Kings and rulers India Social life and customs 20th century India History 20th century Kings and rulers Manners and customs Princesses Travel France Paris India India Kapūrthala (District) India Mandi (District) 1900-1999 fast DS481.A626 S3613 2023 954.03/56092 B 9780374106010 0374106010 2022045237 pda,print DLC 221004 20250318222430.5 in00004729958 eng