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Post by Merlot Daruwala Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:06 am

Just finished reading this awesome book. What a saga... in the midst of all the intrigue and Hyderabadi court politics of the early 19th century, there is an amazing love story (featuring haha..Anglo-Hyderabadi integration) that ends, like all love stories, in tragedy and betrayal.

Hats off to William Dalrymple for how teases out this story from volumes of personal correspondence, wills and third party accounts and then puts it all together into one moving, yet historically sound narrative.

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Post by Guest Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:13 am

is it fiction?

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Post by Merlot Daruwala Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:29 am

Oh no no. All real. That's why I'm in awe of Dalrymple's research.

Amazing how a real life story that played out 200 years ago reads like a Bollywoodish potboiler: a dashing British diplomat who immerses himself into the late-Mughal culture of the Nizam's court, a willful teenage beauty from a noble family who falls for him, her mother and grandmother who defy the menfolk to support the romance, married bliss, politics, tragedy, a second dalliance, betrayal and to give it that truly Bollywoodish over-the-top flavor, a powerful, villainous character who contracts leprosy but makes life miserable for the heroine.
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Post by Guest Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:37 am

are there more spoilers you willing to share? Evil or Very Mad

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Post by Merlot Daruwala Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:38 am

Haha..I've not said anything (other than about the leprous villain) that is not already there on the blurb.
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Post by Guest Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:44 pm

i'm buying this book and putting it on the top of my LIFO reading list.

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Fri May 17, 2013 8:06 am

currently reading the last mughal by the same author. just got started. will post updates after i have made some progress.
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Post by Merlot Daruwala Fri May 17, 2013 8:40 am

Oh that's another awesome book. My understanding of the Sepoy Mutiny (that Nationalists call the First War of Independence) underwent a sea change after reading this. Dalrymple is very sympathetic to the rebels and is yet very factual in terms of military strategies, what worked, what failed. One can't help feel sorry for BSZ, that reluctant "emperor" who was in reality at the mercy of people and events way beyond his control.
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