Pitched among the dhok trees on the edge of Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, where the scrub forest thickens before the park boundary proper, the twelve hand-stitched canvas tents of SUJÁN Sher Bagh have been evoking the atmosphere of a 1920s Indian shikaar encampment since Jaisal Singh founded the camp in October 2000. It was a genuinely pioneering proposition at the time — luxury tented accommodation was almost unknown in India — and the interiors make the historical reference concrete rather than decorative: Edwardian campaign-style furniture in teak and rosewood, brass kerosene lanterns hung from timber veranda posts, canopied four-poster beds draped in white mosquito net, folding director's chairs, and leather-strapped travel trunks tucked beneath wooden benches at the foot of each bed. Tiger portraits in gilded frames line the interior canvas walls, giving the sleeping spaces the feeling of a naturalist's field quarters furnished from a Jaipur auction house. The communal areas work in the same spirit. At dusk, the hardwood deck terrace fills with canvas safari chairs arranged around small fire bowls, the whole scene lit by dozens of ground-level lanterns whose warm glow extends into the surrounding grassland. Locally quarried sandstone — the same pale honey-coloured stone that defines Rajasthan's fort architecture — forms the dining pavilion walls, keeping the camp connected to its regional landscape even as the tented rooflines float above it. In 2008, Sher Bagh became the first tented property in India admitted to Relais & Châteaux, a distinction the camp has worn without apparent effort.