Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals

, by Parks, Fanny

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ISBN: 9780907871880 | 0907871887
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Copyright: 1/1/2003

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To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, In all its violence and beauty.

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Glossary
Map
Dedication
Invocation
Departure from England	p. 1
Carnicobar	p. 9
Life in India	p. 14
Residence in Calcutta	p. 23
Residence in Calcutta	p. 28
Residence in Calcutta	p. 34
Departure from the Presidency	p. 37
Life in the Mofussil	p. 46
Residence at Allahabad	p. 51
Life in the Zenana	p. 59
Residence at Prag	p. 67
Sketches of Allahabad	p. 72
Removal to Cawnpore - Confessions of a Thug	p. 75
Residence at Cawnpore	p. 81
The Thug's Dice - Execution of Eleven Thugs	p. 89
Residence at Cawnpore - The Dewali	p. 94
Scenes in Oude	p. 103
Revelations of Life in the Zenana	p. 112
The Return to Allahabad - Execution of twenty-five Thugs	p. 117
Scenes at Allahabad	p. 126
Life in the Zenana	p. 132
Adventures in the East	p. 138
The Great Fair at Allahabad	p. 143
The Nut Log	p. 149
The Cholera	p. 154
The Muharram	p. 160
White Ants and Cold Mornings for Hunting	p. 165
Pilgrimage to the Taj	p. 169
Pilgrimage to the Taj	p. 180
The Taj Mahal	p. 187
Pleasant Days at Agra	p. 194
Revelations of Life in the Zenana	p. 198
Life in the Zenana and Chita Hunting	p. 207
Fatehpur Sikri and Colonel Gardner	p. 215
The Marriage	p. 224
The Barat	p. 236
The Chaotree	p. 243
The Mahratta Camp and Zenana	p. 251
The Nawab Hakim Mehndi and the City of Kannauj	p. 258
The Mahratta Camp and Scenes in the Zenana	p. 268
The Mahrattas at Allahabad	p. 274
Tufans in the East	p. 282
From Ghazipur to Ballia	p. 289
Sketches in Bengal - The Sunderbands	p. 291
The Famine at Kannauj	p. 300
Pleasant Days in Camp	p. 306
Ruins of Delhi	p. 311
Ancient Delhi - The Zenana Ghar	p. 317
Departure for the Hills - Landowr	p. 325
Picturesque Scenes in the Hills	p. 331
Life in the Hills	p. 336
Departure from the Hills	p. 340
Department from Allahabad	p. 347
Arrival in Calcutta - the Madagascar	p. 350
Departure from St. Helena	p. 358
The Farewell	p. 362
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