In India for example, the Maharaja Mac is made of chicken, not beef, due to cultural factors.
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It was commissioned by Umed Singh II, the maharaja of Kotah, when tiger hunting was hugely popular in India.
He once attended a press conference held in London by Karan Singh, the maharaja of Kashmir, then India's tourism minister.
In front of the door, there is a large, colourful sign advertising not a hamburger, but a lamburger: The Maharaja Mac.
It took more than a decade to build this palace for Umaid Singh, the Maharaja of Jodhpur, and it was well worth the wait.
India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, struck a deal with the maharaja, but thought that his (mostly Muslim) subjects should be the true masters of Kashmir.
Not quite as huge but with an equally mysterious history is the so-called Golden Maharaja, a pear-shaped diamond of fancy dark orange-brown color, weighing in at 65.57 carats.
Sadly, after her divorce from the Maharaja and the suicide of her son, she moved to Monaco and gambled away most of her jewels, including the Cartier watch.
Across town, just below the magnificent Mehrangarh Fort, the maharaja's cousins Nikhilendra and Dhananajaya Singh opened a hotel at the end of 2009 that couldn't be more different from the palace.
Avery followed that up with the Dictators: three powerful beers dubbed the Maharaja (a hoppy, dark amber ale), the Kaiser (a deep copper, traditional Oktoberfest brew) and the Czar (a robust stout with hints of toffee and mocha).
Then there's the gold Cartier wristwatch once owned by the woman known as India's Duchess of Windsor, Her Royal Highness Maharani Sita Devi of Baroda, famous for her marriage to the Maharaja Pratapsingh and her exquisite jewelry collection.
For the chapter "Guilty Pleasures of the Golden Arches: Mapping McDonald's in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel", they mined dozens of travel blogs written by Westerners who felt conflicted as they ate their unusual Maharaja Mac with their familiar French fries.
The grandest palace open to guests in India may be the Umaid Bhawan in Jodhpur, a monumental 347-room golden sandstone edifice that is still the home of the maharaja of Jodhpur and his family. (They have retreated to one enormous wing.) After attempting to run it as a hotel himself, the maharaja also turned it over to Taj to manage.
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