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HISTORY OF THE MAHARAJA TENTS OF INDIA
Presenting
the splendor of the Royal Tents of the Maharajas
It
hears the song of the wind and smells the fragrance of the air.
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The Maharaja Tent Company celebrates the majesty and romance of a bygone
era when spectacular cities were erected overnight in princely India with tents of hand-printed fabrics and rich
interiors.
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These tents offered the ultimate in luxurious hospitality, often serving
as royal structures for the Maharajas and their courts, and were used to
entertain for a variety of occasions. Today, the tents are still used
at palaces, private properties, gardens and resorts. And there
are still Safari and Tented Camps in Rajasthan at which travelers are
welcomed.
(Please click to see
images of tented camps in India).
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For centuries they have been host to royal weddings, religious ceremony,
polo events, hunting parties on safari, and dessert encampments. Ceremonial
tents became the symbol of wealth and rank and the centerpiece of religion
and society a place to talk, to play, to communicate. Tents were often
the most precious possessions dwellings of both utility and luxury. The
history of tents is long and widespread, mentioned in holy literature,
recorded in poetry, depicted in art, and used as a form of art in expressing
the lives of ancient cultures.
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The Prince of Wales in a
royal tented room on his 1876 visit to India
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