sentence1: In the 19th century, when Kashmir was the most exotic hill-station of them all, the maharaja forbade the British to buy land there, so they then hit on the brilliant alternative of building luxuriously appointed houseboats moored on the lakes near Srinagar and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true .
sentence2: The maharaja allowed the British to build houseboats on the lakes.