In the 1920s the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals Ackerley recorded the Maharajahs fantastically eccentric habits & riddling conversations & the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday" is an intimate & very funny account of an exceedingly strange place & one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature."