Maps
Family Trees
Introduction
PART I
Chapter 1: A prince in name 1838-1848
Chapter 2: Money, power and politics 1849-1859
Chapter 3: Passage from India 1859-1869
Chapter 4: A Cinderella story 1852-1870
Chapter 5: Battling Parliament and the press 1869-1873
Chapter 6: The Nawab's English family 1871-1881
Chapter 7: Leaving England 1880-1884
PART II
Chapter 8: Sarah's fight 1885-1925
Chapter 9: Royal bohemians 1907-1914
Chapter 10: Weathering the war 1914-1919
Chapter 11: Writing for a living 1920-1925
Chapter 12: Farming down under 1925-1927
Chapter 13: Divided families 1927-1941
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Selective Sources
Index
Products specifications
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Author
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Lyn Innes |
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Pub Date
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12/08/2021 |
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Binding
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Hardback |
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Pages
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256 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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954.14035092 |
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GBPPrice
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20.00 |
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Availability
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Available |
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.
