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
1875RCIN 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.
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.