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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George - quiet, socially awkward and the only boy at school with distinctly Indian features - grows up into a successful barrister, till he is improbably linked to and then prosecuted for...
Author
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
2010
Description
'Victoria & Abdul' examines how a young Indian Muslim came to play a central role at the heart of the empire, & his influence over Queen Victoria at a time when independence movements in the sub-continent were growing in force. Yet, at its heart, it is a tender love story between an ordinary Indian & his elderly queen.
Author
Publisher
Sutton
Pub. Date
2006
Description
'Spy Princess' tells the story of Noor Inayat Khan, the descendant of an Indian Prince Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore. She became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. This book covers Noor's life from her birth in Moscow, where her father was a Sufi preacher, to her capture by the Germans.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's (Academy Award winner Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another...