An appeal to the ladies of Hyderabad : scandal in the Raj / Benjamin B. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Benjamin B., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandals.

History.

Miscegenation (Racist theory).

Race relations.

India--Officials and employees--Biography.

India.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India--Race relations--History--19th century.

Hyderabad (India : State)--History--19th century.

Hyderabad (India : State).

India--Hyderabad (State).

Jang, Fathah Nawaz, 1852-1904.

Jang, Fathah Nawaz.

Donnelly, Ellen Gertrude, 1854-1912.

Donnelly, Ellen Gertrude.

Miscegenation (Racist theory)--India--History--19th century.

Scandals--India--History--19th century.

Employees.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 347 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Benjamin Cohen tells the dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals. In the struggle of one couple, he exposes the fault lines that would soon tear a world apart.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

New beginnings in Hyderabad

A grand tour to the heart of empire

The pinnacle of power

The scandal unleashed

The prosecution charge

I have seen this lady before

Star witnesses and a verdict

Pink and yellow accusations

Turned adrift.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780674987654

0674987659

OCLC:

1059263697