Combined with the Jungle Book suite of animals and the bamboo lodges, with their sprawling gardens and troops of monkeys, they make you feel as if you are stepping back into the BritishRaj.
"It's a holistic approach to jewelry as a work of art, " explained Dr. Amin Jaffer, international director of Asian Art at Christie's and author of "Made for Maharajas, " a book on the objects commissioned by Indian princes during the BritishRaj.
It would have been more relevant, historically and geographically, to refer to the annexation of the Afghan kingdom to the North-West Frontier Province by the Britishraj, which happened soon after the casual carve-up of the Ottoman Empire had enraged the Muslim world.