Manohar Malgonkar, who has succeeded in carving out a significant place in Indian Fiction in English through the fresh and sponta neous depiction of Indian life and its value -system along with the socio-political and historical changes in the destiny of the nation, skillfully communicates multi -colors of human bonds– ‘man-woman, familial, racial and other social ones ’ in his major no vel The Princes . The novel presents the uneasy life and broken bonds of the people of an Indian state – Begwad, particularly the painful and problematic stories of the royal family and their unpleasant relations and struggles for survival, leading to the di ssolution of the state due to new democratic reforms for the reconstruction of India after Independence