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Synopsis This is the first comprehensive, detailed and bold biography of Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir. This authoritative and uniquely insightful biography explores the fascinating public and private life of this man of character in all its human complexity. He compels our admiration because even in the turbulent decades, he enthusiastically enough streamlined the whole government set up, cleared the aegean stables and brought improvement in all other aspects in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Maharaja Hari Singh’s life reads like a Greek tragedy besieged by outer and inner conflicts. No doubt, he was not assassinate directly like Caesar by the conspirators but he was injured and humiliated, harassed and abused and made to abdicate unceremoniously and forced to leave his home and hearth in a shabby manner, never to return. The book is vivid, penetrating and wholly absorbing to look at the book protoganists-Maharaja and the Sheikh and the horrors and miseries of the people. There are many characters who have been delineated with skill. All the characters and events appear alive. The turbulent and strife-torn times in Jammu and Kashmir’s history are narrated with vividness.