Last Prince of Bengal

A Family's Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, in 1880, he was forced to abdicate by the British authorities, who saw him as a threat and permanently abolished his titles. The Nawab's change in fortune marked the end of an era in India and left his secret English family abandoned. The Last Prince of Bengal tells the true story of the Nawab Nazim, his wife and their descendants, as they sought by turns to befriend, settle in and eventually escape Britain. From glamourous receptions with Queen Victoria to a scandalous Muslim marriage with an English chambermaid; from Bengal tiger hunts to sheep farming in the harsh Australian outback, Lyn Innes recounts her ancestors' extraordinary journey from royalty to relative anonymity. Exposing complex prejudices regarding race, class and gender, this riveting account visits the extremes of British rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is also the intimate story of one family and their place in defining moments of recent Indian, British and Australian history.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-18
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt473 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagSaqi Books
ISBN9781908906465

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Lyn Innes is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Born and educated in Australia, she moved to North America and developed her interest in cultural nationalism, focusing on Irish, African, African American and Caribbean literatures. She earned a PhD from Cornell University and taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she became associate editor of OKIKE: An African Journal of New Writing, founded by Chinua Achebe. Innes has co-edited two volumes of African short stories with Achebe.

MapsFamily TreesIntroductionPART IChapter 1: A prince in name 1838-1848Chapter 2: Money, power and politics 1849-1859Chapter 3: Passage from India 1859-1869Chapter 4: A Cinderella story 1852-1870Chapter 5: Battling Parliament and the press 1869-1873Chapter 6: The Nawab's English family 1871-1881Chapter 7: Leaving England 1880-1884PART IIChapter 8: Sarah's fight 1885-1925Chapter 9: Royal bohemians 1907-1914Chapter 10: Weathering the war 1914-1919Chapter 11: Writing for a living 1920-1925Chapter 12: Farming down under 1925-1927Chapter 13: Divided families 1927-1941EpilogueAcknowledgementsImage CreditsSelective SourcesIndex