ABSTRACT
S o m e of the princes and wealthy men of India have done a great disservice to their mother country by flaunting their wealth in a vulgar and tawdry manner in the fashionable hotels of the West. They have given the idea by doing so that India is a fabulously wealthy country. This view of India, which dates back to very ancient times, has become almost a tradition. It was immensely strengthened and exag gerated in the eighteenth century, when freebooters and adventurers brought back from a conquered and oppressed people the loot in such quantities that it corrupted the whole political life of Great Britain and nearly led to a moral disaster of the first order.
