Career
He was the second child of Alfred Green (10 April 1907 - 2 October 1979) a Guardsman to King George V and later Captain in the Army of India and Priti Varma (15 June 1910 - 30 March 1980) who came from a family of merchants. Early Staying in various cities and provinces, including Bombay, Calcutta and finally, in 1940, settling in the Princely State of Rampur. At an early age Maurice developed a keen interest in photography, which was wholeheartedly encouraged by his mother Priti, who gave him his first camera at the age of 10.
In 1947, at the age of 17 Maurice began work on his first photographic project, which documented the declining grandeur of the Princely states, before they ultimately disappeared following Independence.
The book was titled A Gilded Life and finally published in 1957, exactly ten years after India’s independence from British rule. The book was not given great attention at the time, due to the collapse of the publishing company Turner"s, however photographs from the book were printed in various magazines and newspapers.