An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj

by Benjamin B. Cohen

Book Overview

The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.

In April 1892, a damning pamphlet circulated in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, the capital of the largest and wealthiest princely state in the British Raj. An anonymous writer charged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674987659
• ISBN13: 9780674987654
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"