Strange Little Woman
Ferdinand Mount: First and Only Empress, 22 November 2018
Empress: Queen Victoria and India
by Miles Taylor.
Yale, 388 pp., £25, August 2018,978 0 300 11809 4 Show More
by Miles Taylor.
Yale, 388 pp., £25, August 2018,
Eastern Encounters: Four Centuries of Paintings and Manuscripts from the Indian Subcontinent
by Emily Hannam.
Royal Collections Trust, 256 pp., £45, June 2018,978 1 909741 45 4 Show More
by Emily Hannam.
Royal Collections Trust, 256 pp., £45, June 2018,
Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince’s Tour of India 1875-76
by Kajal Meghani.
Royal Collections Trust, 216 pp., £29.95, March 2017,978 1 909741 42 3 Show More
by Kajal Meghani.
Royal Collections Trust, 216 pp., £29.95, March 2017,
“... in 1834. But he does not record the humiliating fate of those gifts. That story is told vividly by Emily Hannam in Eastern Encounters, the sumptuous volume that accompanied the recent exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery. Nasir-al-Din Haider had got clearance from the resident in Lucknow, Colonel John Low, and from the governor-general in Calcutta, Lord ... ”
