The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family

by John Zubrzycki

Rajput valour, once tested on the battlefield, is now being played out in the political domain, in corporate boardrooms and on the sporting field.

Two of his successors, Jahangir and Shah Jahan, were the sons of Rajput princesses. Many Rajput clans supplied wives for the Mughal emperors, the notable exception being the Sisodias of Mewar who viewed such alliances as disgraceful,

‘Native civilization in India is its very best in Jaipur.’

Roop Rai, whom British intelligence referred to as a ‘female Rasputin’.