Last King in India Wajid Ali Shah
Last King in India Wajid Ali Shah
- ISBN 13:
9781849044080
- ISBN 10:
1849044082
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 09/01/2014
- Publisher: Hurst
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Summary
Somewhere in between the two extremes lies a complex character: a man who married over 350 women, directed theatrical events lasting a month, and built a fairytale palace in Lucknow. Wajid Ali Shah was written out of the history books after his kingdom was annexed in 1856. Some even thought he had been killed during the mutiny the following year. But he lived on in Calcutta where he spent the last thirty years of his life trying to recreate his lost paradise. He remained a constant problem for the government of India, with his extravagance, his menagerie and his wives-in that order. For the first time his story is told here using original documents from Indian and British archives and meetings with his descendants.