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Description:The writer William Knighton (c.1824 1900) spent much of his career in Sri Lanka and India. Published in 1855, this is an account of the court of the notorious Indian King Nussir-u-deen (c.1803 37), written from the viewpoint and using the testimony of an anonymous British member of the King's retinue. Richly descriptive, it is an intimate portrait of life in the service of a hedonistic sovereign so hated and paranoid that he feared his own family would try to poison him. He is characterised as a cruel and frivolous man who only trusted his sycophantic barber. As well as describing the lavish royal lifestyle, the narrator documents the King's thirst for hunting, for exotic-animal fights and for abusing and humiliating members of the royal family. This is a lurid and engrossing tale of a monarch in decline and the corruption and favouritism that led to his eventual assassination."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Private Life of an Eastern King: By a Member of the Household of His Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History). To get started finding The Private Life of an Eastern King: By a Member of the Household of His Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The writer William Knighton (c.1824 1900) spent much of his career in Sri Lanka and India. Published in 1855, this is an account of the court of the notorious Indian King Nussir-u-deen (c.1803 37), written from the viewpoint and using the testimony of an anonymous British member of the King's retinue. Richly descriptive, it is an intimate portrait of life in the service of a hedonistic sovereign so hated and paranoid that he feared his own family would try to poison him. He is characterised as a cruel and frivolous man who only trusted his sycophantic barber. As well as describing the lavish royal lifestyle, the narrator documents the King's thirst for hunting, for exotic-animal fights and for abusing and humiliating members of the royal family. This is a lurid and engrossing tale of a monarch in decline and the corruption and favouritism that led to his eventual assassination."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Private Life of an Eastern King: By a Member of the Household of His Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History). To get started finding The Private Life of an Eastern King: By a Member of the Household of His Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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