A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from British Raj Punjab to 1930s Paris and World War II. In a Mumbai museum in 2007, Livia Manera Sambuy encounters a photograph that will change her life forever. The caption states that Punjabi princess Amrit Kaur sold her jewelry in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. For Livia, this marks the beginning of an obsessive quest for the truth, as she delves into the history of the British Raj, the diamonds and sapphires of the 20th-century aristocracy, and the lives of extraordinary characters: bankers, jewelers, explorers, and spies.

An ambitious, absorbing work that unveils the layers of its enigmatic subject and delves into her own emotional fluctuations. A subversive true story... In Search of Amrit Kaur immerses itself in the glossy life of Indian royalty.

Pages: 352, Dimensions: 13x13cm