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t s r u H THE LAST KING IN INDIA t s r u H t s r u H ROSIE LLEWELLYN-JONES t The Last King in India s r Wajid ‘Ali Shah, 1822–1887 u H HURST & COMPANY, LONDON First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PL © Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 2014 All rights reserved. Printed in India t Distributed in the United States, Canada and Lastin America by Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America r The right of Rosie Llewellyn-Jones to be identified as the author of this publication is asserted by her in accuordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book H is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-1-84904-408-0 www.hurstpublishers.com This book is printed on paper from registered sustainable and managed sources. To the memory of Stanley Menezes, ‘better than the best’ t s r u H t s r u H CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix t List of Illustrations xi s Chronology xiii Glossary xix r Introduction 1 u 1. ‘That Energetic Old Lady’ 11 2. Pageants and Pantomimes 49 H 3. The Sorrows of Akhtar 83 4. The House of Fairies 127 5. At Garden Reach 165 6. A Tigress Escapes from the Menagerie 205 7. A Mimic Kingdom 239 Conclusion 275 Notes 283 Bibliography 301 Index 307 vii t s r u H
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