The idea that this journey is being transformed into a “pay-per-prayer” weekend, as sardar notes, is heart wrenching and worrying.
The sardar's harem has less decoration than the state apartments.
The late sardar Lachman Singh will go down to posterity as a hero, because he knew how to die.
Then at a signal from their sardar (leader), they bound Chandra Babu hand and foot and squatted round him in a circle.
He was brought down to us from Afghanistan by a friendly sardar, who had taken an interest in him.
One chamber, called the Hall of the sardar, bears witness to former splendour in its decorations.