# Hindoo Holiday

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- Book: [Hindoo Holiday](https://www.bookquiver.com/jr-ackerley/hindoo-holiday) ([Hindoo Holiday.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jr-ackerley/hindoo-holiday.md))
- Authors: [J.R. Ackerley](https://www.bookquiver.com/jr-ackerley)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-003-2
- Published: 2009-03-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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 Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.