'Maharaja: The Splendour of the India's Royal Courts' opens this autumn at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition features a life-size model of an elephant in procession.
To find out how to dress an elephant for a royal procession, V&A staff observed Ramu, a freelance elephant, being adorned with textiles, howdah and elephant jewellery belonging to the Maharana of Mewar.
With kind permission of the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation.