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Begam Samru: Fading Portrait in a Gilded Frame
A fascinating re-creation of the life and times of the dazzling nautch girl who became the celebrated Begam Samru after her marriage to a foreign military adventurer, General Reinhardt. She shared his dangers and tortuous intrigues in the turbulent ‘time of troubles’ in the eighteenth century. When he died she took over his jagir, converted to Christianity and steered a perilous course with uncanny skill through the Moghul empire’s last days and the evergrowing power of the British. The life story of this extraordinary Christian princess has no parallel in the transition from chaos to order in Hindustan two hundred years ago. Her memory lives on in the splendid cathedral she built at Sardhana near Meerut which continues to draw thousands of visitors from far and near.
Begam Samru
On the life and times of Samru Begam, 1750?-1836, ruler of Sardhana.
Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women
Offers an annotated source for the study of the public and private lives of South Asian Muslim women.
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Dark Legacy
General Sombre, whose real name was Walter Reinhard, reached India in 1745 in search of adventure. He won a principality with his sword, and later his widow, the Begam Sombre, multiplied it. Walter's great grandson , David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, adopted heir of the Begam, inherited it, David's wife Mary Anne Jervis stripped him of it. Fortune hunters continue to lay claim to it!. This fantastic story which begins in 1740s, embraces the fall the of Moghul Empire, the foundation of the Raj, and Victorian skullduggery whose echoes still rumble on.
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