Fanny Parkes: Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Cover: 9780907871880 | Begums, Thugs and White Mughals | Fanny Parkes | Taschenbuch | 2002

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Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by everything, from the trial of the thugs and the efficacy of opium on headaches to the adorning of a Hindu bride. To read her is to get as close as one can to a true picture of early colonial India - the sacred and the profane, the violent and the beautiful, the straight-laced sahibs and the more eccentric "White Mughals" who fell in love with India and did their best, like Fanny, to build bridges across cultures.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780907871880
ISBN-10:	0907871887
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Parkes, Fanny
Hersteller:	Eland Publishing Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	220 x 140 x 29 mm
Von/Mit:	Fanny Parkes
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.11.2002
Gewicht:	0,449 kg