Love at Dal Lake

The scene is set in Kashmir in the northernmost part of India where the great Indus River meandersKamala the granddaughter of Maharaja Chandra Kumar the powerful viceroy of Benares and who is promised to become the chief ladyinwaiting of the daughter of Goyar the Grand Duke of Delhi falls in love with Cavalry Captain Rachman who hails from a farmers household Her amour with the captain however is strongly opposed to by her grandfather and grandmother and aunts on the grounds that the young lovers are too vastly separated in their respective social position