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Author | : John Zubrzycki |
Publisher | : Transit Lounge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0995359512 |
It was a scandal that rocked the highest echelons of the British Raj. In 1891, a notorious jeweller and curio dealer from Simla offered to sell the world's largest brilliant-cut diamond to the fabulously wealthy Nizam of Hyderabad. If the audacious deal succeeded it would set the merchant up for life. But the transaction went horribly wrong. The Nizam accused him of fraud, triggering a sensational trial in the Calcutta High Court that made headlines around the world...
Author | : John Zubryzcki |
Publisher | : Pier 9 |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781742661476 |
Author | : John Zubrzycki |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190934883 |
India's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors and illusionists dazzled the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. As British dominion spread over the subcontinent, such wonder-workers became synonymous with India. Western magicians appropriated Indian attire, tricks and stage names; switching their turbans for top hats, Indian jugglers fought back and earned their grudging respect. This book tells the extraordinary story of how Indian magic descended from the realm of the gods to become part of daily ritual and popular entertainment across the globe. Recounting tales of levitating Brahmins, resurrections, prophesying monkeys and "the most famous trick never performed," Empire of Enchantment vividly charts Indian magic's epic journey from street to the stage. This heavily illustrated book tells the extraordinary, untold story of how Indian magic descended from the realm of the gods to become part of daily ritual and popular entertainment across the globe. Drawing on ancient religious texts, early travelers' accounts, colonial records, modern visual sources, and magicians' own testimony, Empire of Enchantment is a vibrant narrative of India's magical traditions, from Vedic times to the present day.
Author | : Edward Phillips Oppenheim |
Publisher | : McClelland and Stewart |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Caricatures and cartoons |
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Author | : Arup K. Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9389449197 |
In September 1600, Queen Elizabeth and London are made to believe that the East India Company will change England's fortunes forever. With William Shakespeare's death, the heart of Albion starts throbbing with four centuries of an extraordinary Indian settlement that Arup K. Chatterjee christens as Typogravia. In five acts that follow, we are taken past the churches destroyed by the fire of Pudding Lane; the late eighteenth-century curry houses in Mayfair and Marylebone; and the coming of Indian lascars, ayahs, delegates, students and lawyers in London. From the baptism of Peter Pope (in the year Shakespeare died) to the death of Catherine of Bengal; the chronicles of Joseph Emin, Abu Taleb and Mirza Ihtishamuddin to Sake Dean Mahomet's Hindoostane Coffee House; Gandhi's experiments in Holborn to the recovery of the lost manuscript of Tagore's Gitanjali in Baker Street; Jinnah's trysts with Shakespeare to Nehru's duels with destiny; Princess Sophia's defiance of the royalty to Anand establishing the Progressive Writers' Association in Soho; Aurobindo Ghose's Victorian idylls to Subhas Chandra Bose's interwar days; the four Indian politicians who sat at Westminster to the blood pacts for Pakistan; India in the shockwaves at Whitehall to India in the radiowaves at the BBC; the intrigues of India House and India League to hundreds of East Bengali restaurateurs seasoning curries and kebabs around Brick Lane... Indians in London is a scintillating adventure across the Thames, the Embankment, the Southwarks, Bloomsburys, Kensingtons, Piccadillys, Wembleys and Brick Lanes that saw a nation-a cultural, historical and literary revolution that redefined London over half a millennium of Indian migrations-reborn as independent India.
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Total Pages | : 1104 |
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Author | : Laurence Gray Worcester |
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Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Burglary |
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Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Includes lists of members of the Kipling society.
Author | : Mini Menon |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2020-04-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9353578809 |
Eccentric maharajas and nawabs, bizarre believe it or not tales and hilarious twists and turns come together in this first book of the Quirky History series. From the Nizam who hid a priceless diamond in a shoe to the Swan Car of the Maharaja of Nabha to the Nawab of Junagadh who got his dog, Roshanara, married in brocades and pearls with over 700 guests in attendance and many more quirky, unusual stories.Get ready for history to pop right out of this book!'We need offbeat, quirky stories like the ones in this collection to make history come alive' - Ruskin Bond