The Taste with Vir: Only in India can you stay in a real palace converted into a... January 21, 2020 at 11:38PM

The Mumbai Taj was the first palace hotel of note in India. Except that it wasn’t really a palace. The first real palace to be converted into a hotel was the Srinagar palace which Dr. Karan Singh gave over to the Oberoi group to run as a hotel in the late 1950s.