📱 eBook en inglés THE HILL OF DEVI

The novelist E M Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajahs court in the early twentieth century. Through letters from his time working there as the Maharajahs private secretary, he introduces us to a fourteenth-century political system where the young Maharajah of Devas, certainly a genius and possibly a saint, led a state centred on spiritual aspirations. A loving and affectionate portrait of a forgotten world, The Hill of Devi chronicles Forsters infatuation and exasperation, fascination and amusement at this idiosyncratic court. He leads us with him to its heart and the eight-day festival of Gokul Ashtami, marking the birth of Krishna, where we see His Highness Maharajah Sir Tukoji Rao III dancing before the altar like David before the Ark.