I went to the see the Maharaja exhibition at the V&A. The exhibition explored the extraordinarily rich culture of the Maharajas (great kings). I really liked the exhibition but it's a shame that taking photos wasn't allowed within the exhibition, so I couldn't take any photos. I did buy a booklet of postcards, here are the scans of a few of them. 
Ankus (detail)
Elephant goad
Gold with colourless saphires and enamel
Jaipur, around 1870
Golden Thorne of Ranjit Singh
Hafiz Muhammed Multani
Wood and resin with embossed gold
Lahor, about 1820
Canopy (detail)Pearls, rubies, emeralds and diamonds
on deerskin and silk
Baroda, 1865
Comissioned by Maharaja Khanderao Gaekwad
of Baroda
Private Collection 
Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 with 'Hunting' coachwork
Made by Hooper
England, 1927
Specified and ordered by His Highness
the Maharana of Udaipur, shipped to India in 1927
Reproduced by kind permission of Christopher van Essen
For more information about the exhibition visit http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/maharaja/
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