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In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
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8
/100
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13/100Critics
3/100Scholars
Author:
Livia Manera Sambuy, Todd Portnowitz
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
March 14, 2023
A search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi.
What The Reviewers Say
[Sambuy] set out on a forensic quest for 'a lost princess and her vanished world,' her sleuthing over many years giving rise, eventually, to In Search of Amrit Kaur, a book both passionate and eloquent.
Our inability to really know Kaur may be due to the details have been lost to time. But another issue is the book’s point of view. Though Kaur had feet in two worlds, Sambuy is planted in one.
The entire book turns out to be a sequence of wild-goose chases, compounded by galling bouts of projections and fantasies on Sambuy’s part.
Though definitive answers remain in short supply... the eloquent and poetic prose... enlivens the searching historiography. Original and difficult to classify, this is a pleasure to read..
