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Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company

Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company

Mason, Chris

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Historical FiguresGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1538169576
ISBN13: 9781538169575
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Oct 14 2022
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research into primary source documents, the book uses the life of General Sir James Abbott as a narrative thread to explore the troubled period between William Dalrymple's White Moghuls and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. General Sir James Abbott was one of the most remarkable characters in British colonial history, becoming Great Britain's first guerilla leader, the first Briton to reach the fabled Central Asian city of Khiva, and a British Deputy Commissioner who became the King of Hazara. He may have also been the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and the character of Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.

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