Stardust and wanderlust
A royal reminisces about her tryst with adventure, history and travel of a lifetime.
Gin ghar gin takht. For the tipplers this may seem a cryptic advertisement for the spirit but please allow me to ramble. This has been the motto of the Baroda Gaekwad Dynasty for 300 years. Simply translated it means: The saddle is my home, the saddle is my throne. The horse then being the main mode of travel and conquering.
Now, for all royalty in India as the world over, travel and treasures were synonymous. But Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda travelled the world to bring back the best specimens of people, policy and porcelain. By then of course, the mode of transport had transformed into gold carriages and private trains
