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QUEEN VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1819-1901)

The Queen's travels in Scotland and Ireland / translated into Hindi / by / the Maharaja of Bena'ras

1875

RCIN 1053105

Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Benares (r. 1835 – 89), made this Hindi translation of Queen Victoria’s published diaries of the royal family’s trips to Balmoral. The book opens with a painted composite photograph depicting the maharaja offering the book to Queen Victoria.

The Queen recorded the book’s arrival in England in her journal: ‘My book, translated into Hindustani, beautifully illuminated, containing a painting of me…receiving the present from the Maharajah of Benares, bound in inlaid marble, is very curious & really beautiful.

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