Born in a small village in Punjab at the turn of the century, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi began his career in the hotel industry on a fifty-rupee-a-month wage at Simla’s Cecil Hotel. But he was not destined to remain in his lowly position for long. With a combination of clear-sighted thinking, frugality and sheer hard work, he managed to put together a plan and the finances necessary to acquire his first hotel: Clarkes.

That was only the beginning . . . Decades later, The Oberoi Group has twenty-eight hotels and four luxury Nile cruisers, girdles the globe, and is acknowledged as a standard-setter.

In this well-researched and candid biography, written with the cooperation of M.S. Oberoi, Bachi J. Karkaria describes how a man of modest beginnings became the head of an internationally celebrated hotel chain, and details how a major business is established, operated and maintained at the top.

Contents:
Daybreak
The Boy From Bhaun
By A Hair's Breadth
Corset And Steel Frame
Formidable Gertie
Inns And Outs
Hotel Number One
Cockscomb With Bare Feet
The Colonel And The Monk
500 Rooms, One Cockroach
The Grand Vision
Soda For Your Bath
Never A Night Without a Fight
Chained At Last
Shiv Nath's Revenge
No Pall On The Mall
Wolves In Sharkskin
Good-Bye Partners
Raj Exorcized
Consolidate, Not Diversify
Half-Way To A Century
Learning From The World
Maidens No More
A Palace Coup
Prince As Playboy
Heir-Apparent Biki
Diversion
A Style Called Imperial
Less of The Lessee
Breaking The Hex
Flesh On The Bones
Keeping House With Style
Have You Gone Mad?
High Rinse, High Tension
Big Bucks in A Burqua
Next Stop, The World
Don't Blink First
Grilled Cheops
History Revived
King of The Room Boom
Bid Daddy To The Company
State of The Unions
Grow Your Own: The School
Squire Midas
Another Brand of Power
Getting Jeh
Curry Cook., Go Home
Rhapsody And Waltz\
Goodbye, Bhagwanti
1984
The Ascent of Biki
Symphony in 'E'
Carry on, Jeeves
That's How The Money Rolls In
Beatific Giver
Back To The Rescue
Sun-downer