The tall handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four when he arrived in England from Agra to wait all tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk an Agra Central jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the empress of India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful figure at court, becoming the queen's teacher, or Munshi, and instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death of John Brown, her Scottish gille, the queen had at last found his replacement.
Dimensions:0 x 240
Author: Sharabani Basu
ISBN: 9788129115683
Format:
Pages 256