AJMER: Entering Mayo College in India is like traveling back in time by 150 years. However, a new elite is now taught at the school that was formerly just for princes.
The majesty of its history reverberates. The son of the Maharajah of Alwar, the first pupil, arrived in 1875 with great fanfare, seated in a palanquin, and escorted by three hundred attendants.
“We try to preserve a certain tradition of the past,” stated Saurav Sinha, the principal of the school in Ajmer, Rajasthan.
“But only to the extent it enriches our culture, and lets our students remember who they are, and where they come from.”
dubbed the “Eton of the East” and modeled after the prestigious boarding schools in England.
