The Economist and the Maharani

Have just read the most extraordinary obituary in The Economist about the Maharani of Jaipur. Reads as though it was written in the 30s! Would love to know who The Economist commissioned to write it - apparently, when she was sent to prison by Indira Ghandi, she poured French perfume into the sewer in her cell; 'As it ran through the building, Asia's largest prison and one of its worst, other prisoners gathered to inhale the wafting vapours, the true scent of royalty.'
Makes me see The Economist in a whole new light!