At Home with the Maharajas
By Ben Marks
— If you collect or admire Indian art and antiques, you owe it to yourself to see “Maharaja: The Splendor of India's Royal Courts,” now through April 8, 2012, at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the almost 200-piece exhibition features fashions and furniture, paintings and fine jewelry, and plenty of weaponry, from flintlocks used by carefree kings on hunting excursions to the daggers and swords carried by their somber...