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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Begums, Thugs and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes

Begums, Thugs and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes

Parkes, Fanny
Dalrymple, William

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Biographies GeneralTravel GeneralIndia & South Asia

ISBN10: 0907871887
ISBN13: 9780907871880
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

Fanny Parkes lived in India between 1822 and 1846 and was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her journals trace her transformation from prim memsahib to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by the trial of thugs, the adorning of a Hindu bride and swears by the efficacy of opium on headaches. 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 'White Mughals' who fell in love with India, married Indian wives and built bridges between the two cultures.

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